CATEGORY DETAILS 2024

Entrants may enter more than one if that category is relevant to them but must have a bespoke entry for each category.

You should look to include the following in your entry:

A company overview | Why gender balance is so important to your organisation

How you have implemented change | How you measure results | What your employees say

What sets you apart from other companies | Specific criteria listed in your selected category  

Best Employer (over 1,000 employees)

This award recognises employers with over 1,000 employees who have demonstrated an outstanding effort over the past 18 months to attract and retain women in their IT/ Technology departments.

SPONSORED BY ZONAL

Best employer (250-1,000 employees)

This award recognises employers with 250-1,000 employees who have demonstrated an outstanding effort over the past 18 months to attract and retain women in their IT/ Technology departments.

BesT Employer (50-249 EMPLOYEES)

This award recognises employers with 50-249 employees who have demonstrated an outstanding effort over the past 18 months to attract and retain women in their IT/ Technology departments.

Best Small Business Employer (under 50 employees) 

This award gives recognition to businesses with 0-49 employees that are making a great effort in attracting and retaining women in IT / Technology roles. You must be able to demonstrate examples of case studies on women in tech in your business. 

SPONSORED BY Synthace

Best Public sector employer

This award recognises public sector employers that attract and retain female tech talent into their IT/technology departments. You must be able to demonstrate your commitment to a successful diversity initiative that has increased female representation in tech. 

BEST GRADUATE or early careers EMPLOYER

This award recognises employers who go above and beyond to open doors for female STEM graduates or school leavers and provide them with the opportunity to kick-start their tech careers at your organisation. To enter you’ll need to demonstrate how you attract graduates, as well as how many female STEM graduates or school leavers you have employed in the past 18 months.

BEST RECRUITMENT AGENCY

Are you the best recruitment agency helping to get more women into tech roles? This award is for recruitment agencies going above and beyond to help their clients place more females into tech roles. You must be able to demonstrate examples of both candidate and client satisfaction and activity to promote Women in Tech.

SPONSORED BY free-work

BEST RECRUITMENT agency CONSULTANT

Are you the best recruitment agency consultant - helping to get more women into tech roles? This award is for the individual going who is helping their clients place more females into tech roles and promoting women in technology. You must be able to demonstrate examples of your work and activity to promote women in tech and the impact of your efforts and/or testimonials.

BEST RECRUITMENT MARKETING CAMPAIGN

Have you run a recruitment marketing campaign aimed at attracting women into the tech sector? This award gives recognition to the employer that has invested in a successful recruitment marketing campaign in order to hire more women in tech. Make sure you highlight the success of your campaign by showing how you met targets as a direct result of your campaign.

SPONSORED BY WomeninTech.co.uk

Best Employer for Benefits

Do you contribute to childcare vouchers? Boast an excellent pension scheme? Or offer private medical insurance? This award is for employers whose employee benefits inspire wellbeing and impressive staff retention levels. 

BEST EMPLOYER FOR PARENTAL SUPPORT

This award is for the employer who has an exceptional parental support system in place. Please provide information on how you support parents within your business, for example how many paid weeks of maternity/paternity leave you offer, whether you assist employees with childcare solutions or flexibility for working parents. 

BEST EMPLOYER FOR TRAINING

This award is for employers whose commitment to employee’s professional development is evident through the training programmes they offer. You’ll need to demonstrate how your training programme/s help women in tech to upskill, in order to make them eligible for promotions and more senior opportunities. 

BEST EMPLOYER NETWORK

Do you run an impressive women’s network that has established a solid support system for the women in your business? This award celebrates the opportunities and empowerment created by the structure of a women’s network. Please provide examples of how your women’s network empowers, supports, and helps women to develop their professional and/or personal skills. 

BEST RETURNSHIP PROGRAMME

Do you have a returnship programme aimed at supporting women back into technology careers following a break? This award is for employers who have a returnship programme that focuses on helping returners build their technology skills and evidence of success of getting back into the workplace.

BEST MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME

Does your organisation run a fantastic mentorship programme that enables women in tech to share skills and advice? This award celebrates mentorship programmes that are set up to enable women to help other women with their professional development. Nominees will be judged on the ways they commit time and resource to their mentors and mentees.

SPONSORED BY CHASE

BEST IN HOUSE RECRUITER

This award recognises the individual for whom the sky is the limit in terms of their drive to inspire women to succeed in the sector. It celebrates the individual who has a true passion for women in technology, is contributing to closing the gender pay gap by placing women in tech roles, and who is continually helping encourage women in the workplace. 

BEST SUPPLIER

Do you supply an innovative solution to employers which supports their diversity initiatives, strategies or processes? Does your product or service help employers support women within their organisations or help them attract women to their organisation? This award recognises the suppliers going above and beyond to deliver innovative solutions to tech employers and women in technology.

BEST EMPLOYER CAREERS WEBSITE

This award recognises the employer who has the best careers website for women in tech. Does your website clearly communicate the benefits for women working for your business and what support they can expect to receive in their role? Has your careers website encouraged women to apply for tech roles? Please show examples of what information is available for women visiting your website and provide any relevant statistics if applicable.

OUTSTANDING WOMAN IN TECh

Awarded to an individual, this award recognises an influential woman working in tech who is inspiring to her colleagues and team, and is a role model to other women in tech. You should be able to demonstrate what you have done to educate, inspire and support other women working in tech – for example running webinars, creating female-focused network groups and mentoring. We would recommend including testimonials and any supporting letters/evidence.

sponsored by IAG Tech

OUTSTANDING ADVOCATE FOR WOMEN IN TECH

Awarded to an individual, this award recognises an influential person who is an advocate for women in tech. This person is an ally for gender diversity in tech and works hard to raise awareness in the tech industry. You should be able to demonstrate what you have done to educate, inspire and support women working in tech – for example running webinars, speaking of gender diversity on social media etc.

SPONSORED BY AVALOQ

BEST TRAINING PROVIDER OR TRAINING ACADEMY

Training providers and academies play an increasingly important role in giving skills and confidence to women in technology - starting out, returning to work, re-training or upskilling. Do you supply a training solution to employers or directly to candidates which supports diversity initiatives, strategies or processes? Does your training service focus on attracting women in tech? or provide support to help them achieve? This award recognises the suppliers going above and beyond to deliver training to help reduce the gender gap. Please share examples, activity and any results that are applicable.

If you believe you are making moves to address the gender balance but you don’t quite fit into these categories, do get in touch.

Please ensure you have read the T&C’s before entry and note that we reserve the right to change entry criteria at any point if we feel it is necessary to improve the category. We also reserve the right to remove a category at any point should there not be enough entries or for any other reason.