Best tech companies in Australia to work for in 2025

An annual list of the best tech workplaces in Australia has included some surprises, with new winners across two categories, and some of the country’s most prominent tech firms falling down the rankings.

Great Place to Work’s ‘Australia’s Best Workplaces in Technology 2025’ reveals the country’s top workplaces based on anonymous surveys of tens of thousands of employees around the country.

This Trust Index survey includes 60 statements ranked on a five-point scale, and two open-ended questions.

The list is split into micro companies (10-29 employees), small businesses (30 to 99 employees) and medium-large enterprises (100 to 999 employees).

Medium and large technology businesses (100 to 999 employees)

According to Great Place to Work, CrowdStrike’s Sydney office is the best medium or large tech workplace in Australia.

More than 90 per cent of CrowdStrike’s Australian employees said it was a great place to work, compared to an average of 60 per cent at a typical local company.

CrowdStrike offers a cloud-native platform for protecting areas of risk within a business, such as endpoints and cloud workloads and identity and data.

“I’ve been working at CrowdStrike for nearly four years now and I can say it’s one of the best places I’ve ever worked over a 30-year career in IT,” said one CrowdStrike employee.

“The work is great, the product is great, and the work/life balance make being a parent an easier one.

“One thing I’ve witnessed in my time here is that you get rewarded and recognised for your work.”

It’s a big jump up the list for CrowdStrike, which placed at 17th in last year’s edition.

The CrowdStrike name became infamous around the world last year when it rolled out a bungled Windows security update and caused ‘the largest IT outage in history”.

Sydney-based legal tech company Smokeball was named the second best medium-large-sized tech firm to work at in the country, up from 14th last year, while Melbourne-based Centorrino Technologies came in third.

Software firm BGL Corporation Solutions, which provides cloud company compliance, self-managed superannuation fund and investment portfolio software solutions to over 9,500 clients, took fourth spot.

Global tech giant Cisco which was ranked #1 last year has fallen to fifth place this year.

Australian company Atlassian also dropped significantly, coming in at 25th after placing third last year, while Adobe dropped from second place to 18th.

Carsales and Salesforce were ranked #23 and #24 respectively.

Top 25 medium and large tech businesses

CrowdStrike
Smokeball
Centorrino Technologies
BGL Corporate Solutions
Cisco
Kraken
X-Team
UpGuard
ServiceNow
Tecala Group
Mantel
REA Group
ROLLER
Insight Enterprises Australia
AirTrunk
Airtasker Limited
Chamonix IT
Adobe
Nintext
InfoTrack

Small technology businesses (30 to 99 employees)

Things were more stable on the small tech business front, with Macquarie Cloud Services again being named as the best tech workplace in the country.

Based in Sydney, Macquarie Cloud Services provides managed servers, private clouds, hybrid clouds and virtual data centres.

“It’s amazing to know I’m at a workplace that cares about me personally and professionally and they really do put their people first,” one Macquarie Cloud Services employee said.

“Macquarie has an extremely unique company culture that many businesses try and fail to achieve,” another said.

“We’ve all heard the joke about ping-pong tables and free pizza making up for undesirable work conditions – I can say that Macquarie is miles from that stigma.

“You can tell when a company puts people first and makes them at the centre of everything they do, and Macquarie really does.”

Data and AI consultancy V2 AI came in second place, while software and AI firm CORTO was third.

Top 20 small tech businesses

Macquarie Cloud Services
V2 AI
CORTO
Kasada
Airlock Digital
Division 5
Intelia
MaxSoft
IComm Australia
iVolve
RES. Business IT
Luminary
Ansarada
Increment
Braze
Netier
ADITS
Displayr
PhoenixDX
Reckon

Micro technology businesses (under 30 employees)

According to Great Place to Work, Microsoft Solutions Partner A1 Technologies is the best micro-sized tech firm to work at in the country, while managed IT services provider Sensible Business Solutions is ranked second.

Tech offshoring platform Worldteam came in third place, while driving lesson marketplace EzLicence and cybersecurity company Gridware Cybersecurity rounded out the top five.

Gridware has dropped a number of places after being named as the top micro tech firm to work at last year.

Apart from a handful of repeat companies, most of the micro tech firms in the top 10 are appearing for the first time.

Top 10 micro businesses