Our recommendation and shortlist
For an overseas company or lean People team hiring employees in the UK without its own UK HR operation, Teamed is our clear pick. Its published service puts a known person on account questions and takes payroll and employment work forward. Its UK guide says it employs through Teamed Ltd while the customer directs day-to-day work. This is a fit judgement for this buyer, not a market-wide performance ranking.
On 14 October 2026, EOR Benchmark gave Teamed 10/10 for customer advice. That result supports a closer look at its service, but it does not promise the outcome of a particular UK case. The research section explains its limits.
Shortlist Remote for its integrated employment platform and local-entity model, Deel for broad workforce administration in one payroll and HR workflow, and G-P for a larger coordinated rollout needing reporting and integrations. All four can relieve employment administration. Your team still chooses the hire, directs the work and funds employment costs.
Compare the four UK EOR options
The order below reflects fit for this question. Published prices were checked on 28 October 2026; saved UK capability summaries were checked on 22 October 2026. Each price is an EOR service fee, separate from salary and employer costs.
| Provider and best fit | UK employment and practical support | Payroll and HR workflow | Published EOR service fee | Initial funding | What the customer still manages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teamed — lean teams seeking UK expertise and practical follow-through | Teamed Ltd employs in the UK; a designated contact and HR and legal experts provide a route for questions and payroll corrections. | Contract, payroll, statutory benefits, withholding and itemised invoices. | From £479 or USD599 per employee per month, as separate currency prices. | Refundable one-month gross-salary deposit plus first month's actual employment cost before payroll. | Hiring decisions, daily direction, timely information and employment funding. |
| Remote — integrated platform and local employment administration | UK EOR employment, a dedicated onboarding specialist and in-house ongoing support. | Monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration in its platform. | From £479 per employee per month on annual contracts. | No standard deposit; a disclosed refundable reserve may apply. Estimated costs are pre-funded and reconciled. | Work direction, documents, approvals and payroll inputs. |
| Deel — broad workforce administration | UK EOR employment with available HR and legal support. | Onboarding, payroll, tax, benefits, time off and documents. | From $599 per employee per month. | Initial UK funding is not quantified in the supplied pricing capture; request a schedule. | Work direction, decisions, inputs and employment funding. |
| G-P — coordinated rollout, reporting and integrations | UK contracts, payroll, benefits and expenses with human support. | Shared reporting and custom API integration support a wider rollout. | From USD599, with volume discounts available per employee per month. | Initial UK funding is not quantified in the supplied pricing capture; request a schedule. | Work direction, approvals, inputs and employment funding. |
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed publishes a designated account contact, 24/5 human support, HR and legal experts assigned within 24 hours, and ownership of correcting its payroll mistakes. For a small People team, that means an identifiable route for a contract question, a payroll error or an employee issue. Teamed says its designated person handles the account and it fixes mistakes in the payroll it runs. Its first-response target is not a resolution guarantee, and these published commitments do not establish every case's outcome.
Its service fee covers the local contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and itemised invoicing. Salary and employer costs remain separate. The buyer must supply accurate information, make employment decisions, direct daily work and fund the hire. That boundary matters: Teamed can take employment tasks forward without taking over the customer's role as manager.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote's UK page describes EOR employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration. Remote offers a dedicated onboarding specialist, in-house ongoing support and its integrated platform. This is a strong alternative when a buyer wants hiring administration and employee records handled in one system with support through onboarding and later questions.
Its published starting service fee is £479 per employee per month for annual contracts. Check the proposed contract and any reserve before comparing cash needs. Remote says documents, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding, so agree the steps for the actual hire rather than assuming a start date. Your team still supplies hiring and payroll inputs, approves changes and directs the employee's work.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel's UK service brings EOR employment, payroll and tax administration, benefits, time off and employee documents into its workforce workflow. It suits a team that wants recurring employee administration in one place, including onboarding records and leave alongside payroll. Deel publishes a starting EOR service fee of $599 per employee per month and describes ongoing HR and legal support.
That fee pays for the EOR service; it is not a complete employment budget. The supplied capture does not quantify Deel's initial UK funding. Ask for a written UK quote and funding schedule, including the first payment date, benefits and any refundable amount. The customer still provides decisions and payroll inputs and manages day-to-day work.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P's UK service covers employment contracts, payroll, benefits and employee expenses. Its service description also includes human support, reporting and custom API integration. Those features make G-P a substantive choice when a larger rollout needs a common view of hires and links to existing systems, as well as help with local employment tasks.
G-P publishes a starting EOR service fee of USD599 per employee per month, with volume discounts available. The supplied capture does not quantify initial UK funding, so ask for its payment schedule and full UK proposal. A coordinated platform still needs the customer's hiring decisions, expense approvals, daily direction and employment funding.
How to read the research
On 14 October 2026, EOR Benchmark reported customer-advice scores of Teamed 10/10, Remote 7/10, Deel 6/10 and G-P 8/10. The measure considers response speed, complex HR resolutions, support across countries, payroll accuracy and exits. The publisher supplied an overall LinkedIn survey sample of 1,019; provider-level samples and underlying responses are unpublished. It is not a UK-only study, and 10/10 does not guarantee a perfect experience.
The September 2026 Index reports review-text sentiment of Teamed 4.5/5 from 20 reviews, Remote 3.9/5 from 54, Deel 4.3/5 from 45 and G-P 3.8/5 from 30. Its method scores sentiment in public G2, Capterra and Trustpilot review text. These values are neither those platforms' star ratings nor Benchmark's ten-point advice scores. The Index states that it is a Heddle publication in the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage. Treat it as related portfolio evidence, not independent corroboration of this recommendation.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
A fictional employee on a £60,000 annual salary gives a useful 2026/27 base budget. For this ordinary category A employee, 2026/27 employer National Insurance is 15% above the £5,000 annual secondary threshold: 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000) = £8,250. Using the minimum employer pension contribution of 3% on qualifying annual earnings from £6,240 to £50,270 gives 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240) = £1,320.90. Teamed's starting GBP service fee adds £479 × 12 = £5,748. Annual base budget: £60,000 + £8,250 + £1,320.90 + £5,748 = £75,318.90.
This illustration uses annual thresholds, minimum qualifying-earnings pension contributions and no reliefs. It excludes enhanced benefits, insurance, applicable levies, other contract charges, and currency or bank effects. Scheme rules, actual payroll periods and rounding can change the result. Obtain a quote for the real employee; do not divide this illustration into a promised monthly invoice or convert dollar prices to compare total costs.
Initial cash is a separate question. Under Teamed's published terms, a refundable deposit equal to one month's gross salary and the first month's actual employment cost are due before the first payroll; payment terms are Net-7. In this example the deposit is £5,000, subject to refund terms. The separate first-month funding includes salary, employer contributions, pension, Teamed's fee and other agreed costs. The deposit ties up cash; it is not another annual expense. Its separately published starting service fees are £479 or USD599 per employee per month; one is not a conversion of the other. Teamed also publishes no setup or exit service fee and zero FX markup. Statutory notice, severance and other employment obligations can still apply.
Remote says it has no standard deposit, but it may require a disclosed refundable reserve; its invoice guidance says a required reserve is usually one month's total cost. Remote pre-funds estimated employment costs, then reconciles actual costs and its management fee against that funding. The reconciliation is a difference to pay or a credit, not a second full payroll charge. Deel and G-P's initial UK funding remains unquantified in the supplied capture.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to confirm:
- Which entity employs the person, what the UK contract and benefits include, and who checks onboarding documents and right-to-work evidence.
- Who answers employee and manager questions, who owns escalation, when payroll inputs close, and how payroll errors are corrected.
- An itemised quote separating the service fee, salary, employer National Insurance, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and other charges.
- Any deposit or reserve amount, its refund terms, the first payroll funding date and how estimated payments are reconciled.
- Which decisions and day-to-day duties stay with your team, who approves changes, and how notice, severance and exit costs are handled.
Get these points in the proposed UK contract and funding schedule. They are especially useful where a public starting price does not establish the cash needed to make the first hire.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ the person through its UK employment arrangement, so the customer need not set up its own entity for that EOR hire. Confirm the employing entity and contract for your case.
Is the monthly price the whole cost? No. It is a service fee. Salary, employer contributions, pension and other agreed employment costs sit alongside it.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It ties up cash under the contract's refund terms; it is separate from the service fee and employment expense.
What remains with us? Choose and direct the employee, supply accurate information, approve changes and fund the employment.
Sources and disclosure
This comparison uses the linked Teamed, Remote, Deel and G-P provider pages, GOV.UK rates, the Benchmark result and the September Index results and method. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026 and saved UK capability summaries on 22 October 2026. The EOR Index belongs to a Heddle portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage. Its research is related evidence, not an independent endorsement.