Just 4pc see finance as most fulfilling

Leading the charts (23%) is health and care, which includes doctors, nurses and social workers.

Arts, entertainment and publishing is second place (12%), while third is education (11%).

Nearly four in 10 (39%) financial services professionals admit they ‘fell into’ their career, yet this is more common in construction (53%) and legal-based (50%) careers.

Over a third (34%) of construction workers consider their own work to be the most rewarding.