UK IT Industry Awards 2025<\/a> celebrated the very best of the country\u2019s IT profession at a glamorous and high-energy ceremony in London.<\/p>\nThe event, organised by Computing in association with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for the 15th straight year, brought together the industry\u2019s finest to recognise outstanding achievement across organisations, projects, technologies and individuals.<\/p>\n
The judging panel faced tough choices, and the winners join an exclusive club of industry excellence.<\/p>\n
With entries this year emphasising resilience, innovation and sustainability, it\u2019s clear that UK IT has moved well beyond cost-cutting and into a phase of strategic transformation.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to all the finalists, winners and those highly commended. Through your work, the UK IT Industry Awards continue to set the benchmark for excellence in technology leadership, project execution and organisational impact.<\/p>\n
Keep an eye on next year\u2019s event – entries will open soon.<\/p>\n
Our thanks to everyone who participated, attended and made the evening such a memorable celebration of the IT sector.<\/p>\n
Winners of the Organisational Excellence categories are below, or click these links to go immediately to other categories:<\/p>\n
Winners \u2013 UK IT Industry Awards 2025
\n Organisational Excellence<\/p>\n
Best Place to Work<\/p>\n
Winner: Audacia<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Royal Air Force<\/p>\n
Corporate Social Responsibility Award<\/p>\n
Winner: EDF Energy<\/p>\n
Development Team of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Nationwide Building Society – The Unisys Engineering Team<\/p>\n
Highly commended: OASIS<\/p>\n
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award<\/p>\n
Winner: Insight<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Bank of England – Assistive Technology Team<\/p>\n
Project Team of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group \u2013 App Redesign Programme by Devices and Digital Experience Lab<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Aviva – Project Country<\/p>\n
Services Company of the Year < 100 employees<\/p>\n
Winner: Axiologik<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Audacia<\/p>\n
Services Company of the Year > 100 employees<\/p>\n
Winner: Bridewell: Securing Critical National Infrastructure Through Service Excellence<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Answer Digital<\/p>\n
Team of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: WhiteSpider<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Bank of England<\/p>\n
Vendor of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Content Guru<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Fulcrum GT<\/p>\n
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Project Excellence<\/p>\n
Best Applied AI Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Superdrug<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Marston Holdings – FREYA<\/p>\n
Charity (Third Sector) Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Waythrough – IT & Digital Team – ourWaythrough: IT Unified<\/p>\n
Highly commended: RSPCA – Digital Education Project<\/p>\n
Data Science Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: West Midlands Police \u2013 Reducing knife crime with Esri UK geospatial insight<\/p>\n
Highly commended: AtkinsRealis \u2013 ARROW<\/p>\n
Digital Transformation Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Digital Service & CMC Partnership Consultancy – gov.uk adoption<\/p>\n
Highly commended: AtkinsRealis: Digital Safety Case<\/p>\n
Financial Services Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: First Response Finance Ltd – Athena Decision Engine Development and Implementation<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Stanhope Insurance (part of Everywhen) in partnership with Brillio & Mendix<\/p>\n
Public Sector Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Financial Conduct Authority – Digital Unified Intelligence Environment<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Scottish Government Social Security Programme in partnership with IBM Consulting<\/p>\n
Technology Refresh Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient – Business & Commercial Banking – Digital Servicing<\/p>\n
Highly commended: The Technology Transformation Group<\/p>\n
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Technology Excellence<\/p>\n
Technology Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Bridgeworks Ltd<\/p>\n
Highly commended: ManagementStudio<\/p>\n
AI Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Darktrace<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Spherica Business Solution<\/p>\n
Cloud Technology of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: BlakYaks<\/p>\n
Highly commended: National Gas<\/p>\n
Mobile Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient – Digital Customer Waterfront<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Story Engine – Mobile Innovation for Visitor attractions<\/p>\n
Security Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Intigriti<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Immersive<\/p>\n
Sustainable Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: GoCodeGreen<\/p>\n
Highly commended: The Technology Transformation Group<\/p>\n
Technology Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Bridgeworks Ltd<\/p>\n
Highly commended: ManagementStudio<\/p>\n
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Personal Excellence<\/p>\n
Apprentice of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Tiarnan Crosbie – Hamilton Robson<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Anas Shiham – IBM<\/p>\n
Business Analyst of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Mohit Jain – Cognizant<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Andrew Sinclair – Financial Conduct Authority<\/p>\n
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion of the Year<\/p>\n
Adenike Akin-Dada – Financial Conduct Authority<\/p>\n
Engineer of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Martha Taylor – PremFina<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Garvin Kerins, Bank of England<\/p>\n
Inspirational Individual of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Cameron Clarke – Aviva IT Support<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Aladdin Kashout – Morgan Stanley<\/p>\n
Rising Star of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: James Skinner – IBM UK Ltd<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Nene Yamasaki – UK Power Networks<\/p>\n
Security Professional of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Ikenna Umeh – BT<\/p>\n
Highly commended: John Sotiropoulos – Kainos<\/p>\n
IT Leader of the Year<\/p>\n
Winner: Peter Brown – Lloyds Banking Group<\/p>\n
Highly commended: Martin Knoebel \u2013 UK Power Networks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI pioneers, transformation champions and digital trailblazers shared the spotlight at the biggest night in UK tech Every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20267,59,57,58,50,56,39497,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-259646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-uk-it-industry-awards","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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