According to IT recruitment specialists, Greythorn, the 2012 London Olympics will require at least 5,000 extra IT and Telecoms staff to develop and control the systems that are necessary in order for the event to run smoothly and to plan. The new personnel will be engaged in everything from making sure that news networks can upload their feeds to keeping cyber-terrorism at bay.

Greythorn have calculated that the average salary for the IT jobs will be £48,500 p.a. making a total of just under £250m in annual salaries.

IT support is rapidly becoming one of the UK’s largest employers with nearly 1.5 million workers currently engaged in the industry.

It is anticipated that the London Olympics will create well over 100,000 jobs which are expected to become permanent.