AI pioneers, transformation champions and digital trailblazers shared the spotlight at the biggest night in UK tech
Every finalist put their best foot forward, but who walked away with the prize?
Last night the UK IT Industry Awards 2025 celebrated the very best of the country’s IT profession at a glamorous and high-energy ceremony in London.
The event, organised by Computing in association with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for the 15th straight year, brought together the industry’s finest to recognise outstanding achievement across organisations, projects, technologies and individuals.
The judging panel faced tough choices, and the winners join an exclusive club of industry excellence.
With entries this year emphasising resilience, innovation and sustainability, it’s clear that UK IT has moved well beyond cost-cutting and into a phase of strategic transformation.
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.
Keep an eye on next year’s event – entries will open soon.
Our thanks to everyone who participated, attended and made the evening such a memorable celebration of the IT sector.
Winners of the Organisational Excellence categories are below, or click these links to go immediately to other categories:
Winners – UK IT Industry Awards 2025
Organisational Excellence
Best Place to Work
Winner: Audacia
Highly commended: Royal Air Force
Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Winner: EDF Energy
Development Team of the Year
Winner: Nationwide Building Society – The Unisys Engineering Team
Highly commended: OASIS
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
Winner: Insight
Highly commended: Bank of England – Assistive Technology Team
Project Team of the Year
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group – App Redesign Programme by Devices and Digital Experience Lab
Highly commended: Aviva – Project Country
Services Company of the Year
Winner: Axiologik
Highly commended: Audacia
Services Company of the Year > 100 employees
Winner: Bridewell: Securing Critical National Infrastructure Through Service Excellence
Highly commended: Answer Digital
Team of the Year
Winner: WhiteSpider
Highly commended: Bank of England
Vendor of the Year
Winner: Content Guru
Highly commended: Fulcrum GT
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Project Excellence
Best Applied AI Project of the Year
Winner: Superdrug
Highly commended: Marston Holdings – FREYA
Charity (Third Sector) Project of the Year
Winner: Waythrough – IT & Digital Team – ourWaythrough: IT Unified
Highly commended: RSPCA – Digital Education Project
Data Science Project of the Year
Winner: West Midlands Police – Reducing knife crime with Esri UK geospatial insight
Highly commended: AtkinsRealis – ARROW
Digital Transformation Project of the Year
Winner: Digital Service & CMC Partnership Consultancy – gov.uk adoption
Highly commended: AtkinsRealis: Digital Safety Case
Financial Services Project of the Year
Winner: First Response Finance Ltd – Athena Decision Engine Development and Implementation
Highly commended: Stanhope Insurance (part of Everywhen) in partnership with Brillio & Mendix
Public Sector Project of the Year
Winner: Financial Conduct Authority – Digital Unified Intelligence Environment
Highly commended: Scottish Government Social Security Programme in partnership with IBM Consulting
Technology Refresh Project of the Year
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient – Business & Commercial Banking – Digital Servicing
Highly commended: The Technology Transformation Group
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Technology Excellence
Technology Innovation of the Year
Winner: Bridgeworks Ltd
Highly commended: ManagementStudio
AI Innovation of the Year
Winner: Darktrace
Highly commended: Spherica Business Solution
Cloud Technology of the Year
Winner: BlakYaks
Highly commended: National Gas
Mobile Innovation of the Year
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient – Digital Customer Waterfront
Highly commended: Story Engine – Mobile Innovation for Visitor attractions
Security Innovation of the Year
Winner: Intigriti
Highly commended: Immersive
Sustainable Innovation of the Year
Winner: GoCodeGreen
Highly commended: The Technology Transformation Group
Technology Innovation of the Year
Winner: Bridgeworks Ltd
Highly commended: ManagementStudio
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Personal Excellence
Apprentice of the Year
Winner: Tiarnan Crosbie – Hamilton Robson
Highly commended: Anas Shiham – IBM
Business Analyst of the Year
Winner: Mohit Jain – Cognizant
Highly commended: Andrew Sinclair – Financial Conduct Authority
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion of the Year
Adenike Akin-Dada – Financial Conduct Authority
Engineer of the Year
Winner: Martha Taylor – PremFina
Highly commended: Garvin Kerins, Bank of England
Inspirational Individual of the Year
Winner: Cameron Clarke – Aviva IT Support
Highly commended: Aladdin Kashout – Morgan Stanley
Rising Star of the Year
Winner: James Skinner – IBM UK Ltd
Highly commended: Nene Yamasaki – UK Power Networks
Security Professional of the Year
Winner: Ikenna Umeh – BT
Highly commended: John Sotiropoulos – Kainos
IT Leader of the Year
Winner: Peter Brown – Lloyds Banking Group
Highly commended: Martin Knoebel – UK Power Networks