The number of British jobseekers looking for work outside of the UK has jumped since the EU referendum with Ireland ranking at the top, according to data from job site Indeed.

The data from Indeed showed that job searches across the EU from the UK were 7% higher on average in the 100 days after the referendum than prior to the poll with Ireland seeing a 20% increase in the number of searches after the EU Referendum.

There was also an increase in British searches for jobs in Australia (13%), Canada (10%) and Germany (9%). However the 20% rise in job searches in Ireland in the 100 days since the referendum result is almost three times the average increase for the rest of the EU.

"Within hours of Britain's vote for Brexit, many UK-based jobseekers jumped online to look for work elsewhere and the first frenzied days after the referendum saw a huge spike in searches for jobs overseas," Mariano Mamertino, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Indeed Economist, said.

"As the dust settled on the result, many expected that Britons' desire to work abroad would cool. Yet our research reveals that the number of searches for overseas jobs remains high. Interestingly, one of the consequences of the Brexit vote has been to make Ireland a more popular destination for jobseekers located in other EU countries," Mamertino said.

“As the only English-speaking EU member, with the fastest growth rate and flexible labour markets, Ireland is well placed to attract these labour flows and potentially additional foreign direct investment,” Mamertino said. “Theresa May’s confirmation of the date to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017 now makes a ‘hard Brexit’ look more likely, and some of the commentary on immigrant labour from UK cabinet members could unnerve foreign workers and make them consider other options, thereby driving a further spike in October.”

"The UK economy has proved resilient in the first few months since the poll, with consumer confidence remaining high and the number of people in work barely changing," Mamertino said. "But a deterioration in the hiring appetite of employers coupled with increasing talk of a 'hard Brexit', and returning uncertainty over what that might mean, is now prompting many of those who had been thinking of working overseas to job hunt in earnest," Mamertino said.