Announcing the shortlist for the UK IT Industry Awards 2026
Who is set to be recognised as a leader in UK tech?
The UK IT Industry Awards are a benchmark for excellence in British technology; not because they chase the loudest claims, but because they recognise the teams and individuals whose work is reshaping organisations from the inside.
Spanning the public sector, enterprise IT, vendors, services firms and individual achievement, the awards offer a broad view of where meaningful progress is being made across the UK technology landscape.
We’re proud to have announced the shortlist for the UK IT Industry Awards 2026, recognising the people, projects, teams and organisations setting the standard for technology excellence across the UK.
Owned and operated by Computing in association with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, the awards return for their 16th year as one of the industry’s most respected celebrations of achievement, spanning leadership, transformation, innovation, sustainability and more.
We will reveal the winners on Wednesday 11th November at the iconic Evolution London in Battersea Park, bringing the UK’s tech community together for an evening of recognition, networking and celebration.
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Peter Brown, Lloyds Banking Group – our IT Leader of the Year 2025
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UK IT Industry Awards 2026 – The shortlist
Organisational Excellence Awards
Development Team of the Year
- Aker Systems – supporting UK police & law enforcement with next gen National Strategic ANPR Platform
- Aviva
- Home Office - LEDS / NTT DATA External Interfaces Development Team
- JPMorganChase - Internal Fintech Accelerator
- Lloyds Banking Group – The SmartContract Team
- Lloyds Banking Group – The Scottish Widows Games and Gamification Development Team
- Nationwide Building Society
- SEGRO Plc
- Aviva - SCMDM
- Triad Group Plc and The Office for Product Safety and Standards
Learning Provider or Initiative of the Year
- Aviva AI Academy
- Cambridge Spark
- Code First Girls
- DataCamp
- Kaplan Financial
- Nationwide Building Society & SAP Fioneer
- NeuroInclusion Works.
- npower Business Solutions
- SEGRO Plc - Digital Academy
- UST – AccelerateUS®
Best Place to Work
- Exclaimer
- HM Land Registry
- Ridge & Partners
- Sharp
- The Access Group
- TXP Technology x People
- Web Alliance
Vendor of the Year
- ControlUp
- Dext
- Exclaimer
- inforcer
- Mark43
- Yubico
Project Team of the Year – (Enterprise)
- Bank of England
- Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA)
- Heathrow Airport Limited
- IBM Consulting with Nationwide Building Society and Virgin Money
- JPMorganChase - Internal Fintech Accelerator
- Nationwide Building Society
- NHS England - Navigation and Onboarding team in partnership with IBM Consulting
- npower Business Solutions
- Probation Digital, Ministry of Justice
- TalkTalk U project team, TalkTalk
- Unisys Heritage Simplification (UHS) Team, Nationwide Building Society
- Virgin Media O2 & Accenture
Project Team of the Year – (SME)
- Aptia
- Merit Data and Technology - Project Team
- Sharp
- Zenitech
Services Company of the Year – (Enterprise)
- 2i
- A-LIGN
- Advania UK
- ANS – Making technology accessible to all
- Intercity
- Merit Data and Technology Limited
- Namos Solutions
- OneAdvanced IT Services
- Restore Technology
- Sharp
Services Company of the Year – (SME)
- A&A Digital Tech Limited
- Onefile
- Darwin Technology Solutions
- Logixal Document Solutions
- Shivom Consultancy Limited
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
- HSBC UK
- Met Office
- The Access Group
Team of the Year
- Bridewell - Cyber Security Team
- Buro Happold
- EIT Business Applications
- ITV
- McLaren Construction Limited
- Nationwide in Partnership with IBM
- The Core Banking CIO Team, Nationwide Building Society
- Virgin Media O2 and Accenture
Corporate Social Responsibility Award
- Content Guru Ltd
- Defra
- UBDS Digital
Project Excellence
Charity (Third Sector) Project of the Year
- East of England Tech Community
- GS1 UK
- Moat
Digital Transformation Project of the Year – (Large End User Group)
- Fire and Rescue Data Platform - FaRDaP
- HMRC - VAT Mainframe Closure
- ITVX - Journey-Led Reorganisation and the Pioneering 2% Experimentation Framework
- Nationwide in Partnership with IBM
- NatWest & NetOrca - Self-Service Infrastructure Automation at Scale
- Ministry of Justice - Network Operations Centre (NOC), Digital Infrastructure & Security Operations
- Openreach - H2O (Horizontal Hub and Orchestration)
- Nationwide Building Society - Mortgages Completions Manager Multi-Cloud Resiliency Project
- Defra - The Border Trade Matching Service
- The Perfume Shop
Digital Transformation Project of the Year – (Small to Medium End User Group)
- ANS - Becoming our own Customer Zero to drive responsible AI adoption
- Bank of England - Project Vanilla
- BTIIC – British Telecom Ireland innovation Centre - RP6: Autonomous IoT Orchestration for Zero Touch onboarding and Smart Port Digital Transformation
- Cynergy Bank | AiMe - Transforming SME Lending Using AI
- npower Business Solutions - Transition to Product Ways of Working
- TalkTalk Business – Finalising a landmark demerger with a £15m operations transformation
Public Sector Project of the Year
- Bank of England - Bank of England Automated Testing Solution (BEATS)
- CymruSOC - Wales' National Security Operations Centre
- DVLA -Transforming Drivers Medical & Drivers Casework Services
- IBCA - Establishing a national compensation service
- HMRC - VAT Mainframe Closure
- Metropolitan Police Service - Introducing the DASO Passport - Supporting Victims of Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
- Met Office
- Small Island, Big Infrastructure
- Social Security Scotland - The Programme
- Wigan Council & Destin Solutions - Single View of Business
Best Applied AI Project of the Year
- Aviva
- BTIIC - BT Ireland Innovation Centre - AI-driven Contract Lifecycle Management
- Evri
- The Department for Work and Pensions with IBM Consulting
- Eleclink – AMAI (Advanced Monitoring and Asset Intelligence): AI-Powered Cable Inspection for the Channel Tunnel Interconnector
- Google Cloud and Rightmove - Conversational Property Search
- Lifeways - AI Support Plan Quality Checker
- Nationwide Building Society in Partnership with IBM – Applied AI Migration Factory
- Openreach in partnership with Infosys - HUD (Heads Up Display) From Insights to Autonomous Action – Transforming CP Experience at Scale
- Openreach - NexAgent: AI-Driven Field Allocation Intelligence
Technology Refresh Project of the Year
- WD and Dropbox - Magic Pocket - achieving exabyte scale with high-density hard disk drive
- HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) & PA Consulting - Decommissioning and Legacy Risk Mitigation (DLRM) programme
- HM Land Registry - Network Optimisation Project
- HMRC - VAT Mainframe Closure
- Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Lloyds OS Hub - AOV Modernisation
- Nationwide Building Society - Engineering-led transformation, turning legacy cost and key-person risk into scalable, resilient capability
- Nationwide Building Society -Replatforming Nationwide’s SBS Mortgage and Savings Suite into Nationwide AWS Hosted Solution
- UST and Boots partnership - Project Ocean
- UST and Experian partnership - Data Office Business Unit
- WorkNest Secure
Technology Excellence Awards
AI Innovation of the Year - (Large Organisations)
- Agentic Business Intelligence
- Google Cloud and THG Conversational AI Shopping Assistant on Gemini Enterprise.
- HM Land Registry
- HMRC - GenAI Landing Zone: Advancing AI Innovation at Scale
- Lloyds Banking Group + IBM Consulting
- Oasis Platform & AI Gateway
- Sopra Steria - Reimagining Recruitment - AIsha, Your Assessment Buddy
- The Access Group
- Vodafone’s AI Orchestration Transformation with Workato
AI Innovation of the Year - (Small to Medium Organisations)
- 2i
- Content Guru Ltd
- Darktrace
- Dext
- Exponentia.ai
- Merit Data and Technology Limited - Know It All Agent (KIAA)
- OrBro Ltd
- VisualSpec AI by Geeks Ltd
- Xiatech
Security Innovation of the Year
- BTIIC - British Telecomm Ireland Innovation Centre
- Darktrace
- inforcer
- OPSWAT
- Outbreach
- TrustLayer
- UST and Boots partnership for IT Security Operations
Cloud Technology of the Year
- Cloud Hosting Team - Nationwide Building Society
- Data Communications Company (DCC) & Capgemini
- Exclaimer
- HM Land Registry
- Hyve Managed Hosting
- IRIS Elements - IRIS Software Group
- Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Lloyds OS Hub - AOV Modernisation
- Nationwide Building Society
Personal Excellence
Engineer of the Year
- Ellie Robertson - E.ON UK
- Emily Lopez Andrews - Bank of England
- George Hewitt – WhiteSpider
- Joseph Golding - Arup
- Mac Bhakta - E.ON UK Limited
- Milan Parikh - Oracle
- Vijay Thiagarajan - Nationwide Building Society
- Olga Vitkalova - Morgan Stanley
- Sergio Solorzano - Bank of England
Inspirational Individual of the Year
- Anastasiia Gorodetckaia - Lloyds Banking Group
- Carolyn Caudwell - Bank of England
- Dr. Jorge Fernando Alves Guedes - Founder of the Workshop Society, Academic and Executive Consultant
- Hema Sood – Morgan Stanley
- Ikenna Umeh - BT Group
- Melissa Di Donato - Kyriba
- Laura Coe - Nationwide Building Society
- Tyron Raubenheimer – Sharp
Business Analyst of the Year
- Emma Myers - Bank of England
- Grace Wood – Bank of England
- Imran Mirza - Bank of England
- Ravi Sud – KPMG
Chartered Technology Professional of the Year
- Charles Ewen - Met Office
- Dinesh Chacko - Oldfield Builds Limited
- Professor Victor Chang –Aston University
- Steve Jenkins – Snap Surveys Ltd
Rising Star of the Year
- Amber Johnson - Morgan Stanley
- Antoine Rubeiz – IBM Consulting UK
- Arron Ruecroft – Ministry of Justice
- Aurelia Brzezowska - University of Staffordshire
- Finn Mullen – IBM Consulting UK
- Harriet Griffin – IBM Consulting UK
- Michael McDonagh - Arup
- Toby Davey - WhiteSpider
- Xinyi Xu - Morgan Stanley
Apprentice of the Year
- Adebusiola Ola-Adebomi - PA Consulting
- Fabiana Rushforth - Lloyds Banking Group
- Habiba Noor - Bank of England
- Lili Berenyi - Made Tech
- Luka Curtis - McLaren Construction Group
- Olivia O'Sullivan - AtkinsRéalis
- Samuel Goddard-Palmer – AtkinsRéalis
- Tayab Khan - Bank of England
IT Leader of the Year
- Jennifer Scott – Natwest Group
- Joanne Gurton - Bank of England
- Kate Platonova - Shell
- Melissa Fogwill - Henderson Loggie
- Paul Johnston - Logixal Document Solutions
- Prithiviraj Kumar Chintadripet Nandagopal - Bank of England
- Richard Corbridge – SEGRO Plc
- Robert Wrench - McLaren Construction Group
- Sangeeth Manoharan – Marstons Holdings
Special Award: Sustainable Innovation of the Year
- Winner to be announced on the night