Endeavour Information Solutions has become the first employer in Northern Ireland, and one of only 37 across the UK, to achieve all three voluntary Living Wage Foundation accreditations, covering real Living Wage pay, Living Hours and a Living Pension, giving HR teams in a tight regional tech labour market a verified benchmark for pay and benefits credibility. No deal consideration applies, as this is an accreditation rather than a transaction.

Endeavour Information Solutions is a Belfast-based Microsoft Solutions Partner founded in 2009, with additional offices in Edinburgh and London, providing software development, cloud and managed IT services. Financial figures are not publicly available.

The Living Wage Foundation is the UK body that independently sets and accredits the real Living Wage, Living Hours and Living Pension standards.

The strategic logic is retention-driven. Holding all three accreditations positions Endeavour as a benchmark employer in a competitive Northern Ireland IT labour market, where skilled recruitment and staff retention carry a direct cost if unmet.

Blaithin Surgeoner, partner at Endeavour, said the three commitments together help us attract and retain talented people, strengthen employee engagement and create stable, motivated teams. Owen McMahon, team lead and senior business central developer, said the standards give him confidence and security, allowing him to focus on my work and career development.

The structural driver is the gap between statutory minimums and the voluntary standards: Living Pension contributions guarantee at least £3,150 annually, or 12% of a Living Wage worker's salary, well above compliance-only pension minimums. With only 37 UK employers holding all three accreditations, Endeavour's move sets an early marker for Northern Ireland's growing tech sector.

For HR and reward teams, particularly in tight technical labour markets, the case illustrates how bundling pay, hours and pension standards into a single accreditation is becoming a differentiator in recruitment and retention, rather than three separate compliance exercises. As more UK employers pursue the same triple accreditation, Northern Ireland's tech sector looks likely to see it become a competitive benchmark rather than an outlier.

Source: The Irish News