Jaguar Land Rover is drawing up plans to hire an extra 5,000 engineers and technical staff in the next 12 months in what will be seen as a major boost to the UK economy ahead of its departure from the European Union.

The recruitment drive, which could be announced this week, will see the country’s biggest automotive business – which produced 544,000 cars on its British production lines last year – increase its domestic workforce by almost 15pc to 42,000.

JLR will be the latest big corporate name to signal it is beefing up its presence in the UK since last June’s Brexit vote, coming hot on the heels of Apple, Google and Facebook, all of which have declared significant investment in the last 12 months.