Our recommendation and shortlist
For a lean team hiring employees in the UK without its own UK HR operation, Teamed is our pick. Its published UK service combines local employment expertise with practical support that can move contract, payroll and employment questions forward. It uses Teamed Ltd for UK employment. Teamed says it gives every account a designated contact, 24/5 human support and HR and legal experts assigned within 24 hours. It also says it takes responsibility for correcting its own payroll mistakes. These are service commitments, not proof that every issue will be resolved within a set time.
Shortlist Remote if an integrated employment platform and local employment administration matter most; Deel if you want broad workforce administration in one payroll and HR workflow; and G-P if a larger coordinated rollout needs reporting and integrations. EOR Benchmark gave Teamed 10/10 for customer advice on 14 October 2026. That is a useful reason to examine its support closely, not a guarantee of your outcome. The research limits appear below.
Compare the four UK EOR options
This is a buyer-fit order for the stated UK hiring question, not a market-wide performance ranking. Published prices were checked on 28 October 2026; saved UK capability summaries were checked on 22 October 2026. All prices below are starting EOR service fees, separate from salary and employment 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 practical UK expertise | Teamed Ltd employs in the UK; a designated contact and HR and legal experts help carry issues through. | Contracts, payroll, statutory benefits, tax withholding and itemised invoices. | From £479 or USD599 per employee monthly, as separate currency prices. | Refundable deposit plus first month's employment cost. | Direct work, supply decisions and information, and fund employment costs. |
| Remote — integrated platform and local employment administration | UK EOR employment, dedicated onboarding and in-house support. | Monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration in its platform. | From £479 per employee monthly on annual contracts. | No standard deposit; a refundable reserve may apply, alongside estimated pre-funding. | Direct work and provide hiring, document and payroll inputs. |
| Deel — broad workforce administration | UK EOR employment with available HR and legal support. | Onboarding, payroll, benefits, time off and document workflow. | From $599 per employee monthly. | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the supplied capture; request terms. | Direct work, approve changes and fund employment costs. |
| G-P — coordinated rollout, reporting and integrations | UK EOR service and human support. | Contracts, payroll, benefits, expenses, reporting and custom API integration. | From USD599 per employee monthly; volume discounts available. | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the supplied capture; request terms. | Direct work, approve inputs and fund employment costs. |
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed's UK guide describes its local employing entity and says the customer directs day-to-day work. It uses Teamed Ltd for UK employment. Its service description gives a clearer reason to choose it: a designated person can take a payroll problem or employment question to the relevant specialists, while Teamed says it owns correction of its payroll mistakes. That can relieve a lean team of chasing separate answers and coordinating the correction itself.
Its 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 customer must still set the employee's work, provide accurate information, make employment decisions and fund the hire. Teamed's stated first-response target concerns contact, not resolution; its published commitments do not establish how every case will turn out.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote's UK service is a strong option when the buyer wants local employment administration and employee records in an integrated platform. Remote's UK service covers employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration. Remote describes a dedicated onboarding specialist and in-house ongoing support. That combination can help a team coordinate documents, onboarding and recurring payroll through one system.
The trade-off is contractual and operational detail. Remote starts at £479 per employee per month on annual contracts. Check the proposed term, any required reserve and the full funding schedule before comparing quotes. Document completion, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding; ask Remote for the steps for your hire instead of assuming a start date. You still direct the employee and supply timely hiring and payroll inputs.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel's UK service suits a buyer who wants employment administration tied to a wider workforce workflow. Deel's UK service covers EOR employment, payroll and tax administration, benefits, time off and employee documents. Bringing those records together can reduce the work of moving routine changes between separate HR and payroll processes.
Deel publishes a starting EOR service fee of $599 per employee per month and describes ongoing HR and legal support. The fee is one part of the employment bill. The supplied capture does not quantify Deel's initial UK funding, so request a full UK quote, the first payroll funding date and any deposit or reserve terms. Your team still provides decisions, approvals and employee information.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P's UK service merits a place on the shortlist for a larger coordinated rollout. G-P describes UK contract administration, payroll, benefits and employee expenses. Its EOR offering also includes human support, reporting and custom API integration. Shared reporting and system connections may matter when several teams need a consistent view of hiring and employment costs.
G-P publishes an EOR starting price of USD599 per employee per month, with volume discounts available. That published fee does not establish the total UK employment cost. The supplied capture does not quantify initial UK funding; ask for its deposit or reserve position and payment timetable in the proposal. Your team remains responsible for directing work, approving changes and providing the information G-P needs.
How to read the research
For customer advice on 14 October 2026, EOR Benchmark reported Teamed 10/10, Remote 7/10, Deel 6/10 and G-P 8/10. The publisher supplied an overall LinkedIn survey sample of 1,019. Provider-level sample sizes and underlying responses are unpublished, and the result is not UK-only. It can inform questions about support; it cannot predict the result of a particular case.
The September 2026 EOR Index reported 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 figures are neither those platforms' star ratings nor Benchmark's ten-point customer-advice scores. The Index 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 starting monthly EOR fee is not the whole employment bill. For a fictional £60,000 salary, this 2026/27 annual base budget uses Teamed's published GBP starting fee:
- Salary: £60,000.
- Employer National Insurance: £8,250 = 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000).
- Minimum employer pension: £1,320.90 = 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240).
- Teamed EOR service fee: £5,748 = £479 × 12.
Annual base budget: £75,318.90. For an ordinary category A employee, 2026/27 employer National Insurance is 15% above the £5,000 annual secondary threshold. The minimum employer pension contribution is 3% of qualifying earnings between £6,240 and £50,270 in most automatic enrolment schemes. This illustration assumes annual thresholds, minimum qualifying-earnings pension and no reliefs. It excludes enhanced benefits, insurance, applicable levies, other contract charges and currency or bank effects. Payroll-period rounding and the actual contract can change the bill.
The initial cash requirement is separate. Teamed requires a refundable £5,000 deposit, subject to terms, plus the first month's actual employment cost before payroll. That first-month cost includes salary, employer contributions, pension and the service fee, plus any agreed costs. The deposit ties up cash; it is not another annual expense. Teamed publishes separate starting service prices of £479 and USD599 per employee per month. Its published terms include Net-7 payment, 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, although it may require a disclosed refundable reserve; its documentation says a required reserve is usually one month's total cost. Remote estimates and pre-funds employment costs, then reconciles them with actual costs and its management fee; the later invoice is a difference or credit, not a second full payroll charge. Initial UK funding for Deel and G-P remains unquantified in the supplied capture. Do not compare total costs by converting the providers' published currency prices.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to put these answers in writing:
- Which entity will employ the person? Who prepares the UK contract, administers benefits and handles onboarding documents and right-to-work checks?
- What is the named support route? Who owns escalation, payroll cut-offs and correction of an error?
- What must your team approve, supply or manage day to day, including changes to pay, leave and working arrangements?
- Can the quote separate the EOR service fee, salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and every other charge?
- What deposit or reserve is required, when is it refundable, when must the first payroll be funded, and how are estimates reconciled?
- How will the provider handle notice, severance and other exit costs, and what decisions remain yours?
Compare the written answers for your actual hire and contract, particularly where published funding details are incomplete.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ a UK worker through its local arrangement without you setting up your own UK employing entity. Confirm the arrangement for your hire.
Is the monthly price the whole cost? No. Salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits and other applicable charges sit alongside the service fee.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It is cash committed under the contract and may be returned subject to its terms.
What do we still manage? You direct day-to-day work, make business decisions, provide accurate inputs and fund employment costs.
Sources and disclosure
Provider descriptions and fees come from Teamed's UK guide, service and pricing pages; Remote's UK and pricing pages; Deel's UK and pricing pages; and G-P's UK and pricing pages. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026 and saved UK capability summaries on 22 October 2026. The budget uses GOV.UK NI rates and pension rules. Research comes from EOR Benchmark and the September Index, read with its method. The Index is a Heddle publication within the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage; its findings are related evidence, not an independent endorsement.