The UK IT Industry Awards - and the winners are…

The UK IT Industry Awards, from Computing and the BCS, were a roaring success last night, with comedian Jimmy Carr presenting some of the UK's top IT talent with the much-coveted gongs. But who were the big winners on the night?

Thousands of the UK's top IT talent gathered in London's Battersea Park Events Arena last night for the prestigious UK IT Industry Awards, from Computing and the BCS. With comedian Jimmy Carr hosting, the audience were well warmed up for the torrent of trophies, with many there on the night shortlisted themselves.

And the winners, in full, are as follows:

IT Department of the Year
HM Revenue & Customs (pictured below)

Best Use of Cloud Services
Hailo

Large Supplier or Major VAR of the Year
Softcat

Small Supplier or VAR of the Year
Metronet (UK)

IT Employer of the Year - Sponsored by GCS Technology
LV=

IT Project Team of the Year
Wiley

Young IT Professional of the Year - Sponsored by CWJobs.co.uk

Anne-Marie Imafidon, Deutsche Bank

IT Manager of the Year

Kirsty Goddard, EE (pictured below)

IT Service & Support Professional of the Year
Paul McDonough, Virgin Media

Business Analyst of the Year - Sponsored by qBA & North Highland
Isha Jain, National Grid (pictured below)

IT Consultant of the Year
James Stewart, IBM UK (pictured below)

Big Data Project of the Year - Sponsored by Enfathom & North Highland
NHS England with PA Consulting (pictured below)

Network / Infrastructure Project of the Year
University of Derby (Data centre manager Scott Bradley and his team pictured below)

Data Centre Project of the Year
University of Aberdeen (Head of service management Brian Henderson and his team pictured below)

Best Business Project dependent on Mobile Technology - Sponsored by Intel Corporation
Transport for London

Best Not for Profit IT Project
Yarlington Housing Group

IT Project demonstrating most effective use of Collaborative Technology
London Borough of Hackney

Best Creative Industry Project of the Year
Avere Systems, for its work with visual effects specialist Framestore (Avere's EMEA sales director Chic McGregor pictured below)

Security Innovation of the Year
iStorage

Business IT Innovation of the Year
Palletways (Group IT director Thomas Olsson pictured below)

Innovative Mobile App of the Year - Sponsored by Egress Software Technologies
Network Rail

Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
BT

UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award - Sponsored by Accenture
Actual Experience

Cloud Provider of the Year
Egress Software Technologies

CIO of the Year - Sponsored by North Highland
Richard Warner, LV= (pictured below)

Congratulations to the winners, and to everyone successful enough to be shortlisted. For everyone else, the Awards will be back next year, and entries will open in the Spring. Keep reading Computing to find out when.