"The market will be impacted [next week] by the revision of interest rate expectations brought about by the very weak jobs data," said Jeremy Batstone, head of research at stockbroker Fyshe Group.
"The equity market is going to open the week in a relatively nervous fashion," he warned.
Dealers will also be weighing industrial and manufactured data on Tuesday for clues on the strength of the British economic recovery.
The figures were "likely to be watched very closely," Batstone said.
"We had a very bad month in December as you would expect because of course it's a short month because of a lot of [capacity] shutdown because of Christmas."
"But the January figure is expected to have recovered somewhat. So it will probably add further evidence to the suggestion that the UK is growing quite nicely," Batstone said.
Next week sees another clutch of companies post their annual results, notably Lloyds TSB bank on Monday and insurer Royal and Sun Alliance on Thursday.
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