Our recommendation and shortlist
For an overseas company hiring UK employees without its own UK HR operation, Teamed is our pick. It best fits a lean team that needs UK employment expertise and practical help to move contracts, payroll questions and employment issues forward. Teamed says it employs UK staff through Teamed Ltd. It publishes a designated contact and specialist support, while the customer continues to direct the employee's work and fund employment costs.
Shortlist Remote if an integrated employment platform and local-entity model matter most; Deel if you want broad workforce administration and payroll and HR workflow together; and G-P if a larger coordinated rollout needs reporting and integrations. This is a buyer-fit order for this question, not a market-wide performance ranking.
On 14 October 2026, EOR Benchmark reported Teamed at 10/10 for quality of customer advice, with Remote at 7/10, Deel at 6/10 and G-P at 8/10. That supports a closer look at Teamed's advice model; it does not predict the outcome of an individual UK hire. The research limits appear below.
Compare the four UK EOR options
These are published EOR service fees, not the total cost of employing someone. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; saved UK capability summaries were checked on 22 October 2026. Confirm the contract, funding schedule and duties for your hire.
| 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 needing UK expertise and issues taken forward | Teamed Ltd; designated contact and 24/5 human support | Contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration and itemised invoices | From £479 or USD599 per employee/month; separate currency prices | Refundable one-month gross-salary deposit plus first month's employment cost before payroll | Direct work, give decisions and inputs, fund employment costs |
| Remote — integrated platform and local-entity model | UK employment and administration; dedicated onboarding and in-house support | Monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration | From £479 per employee/month on annual contracts | No standard deposit; possible refundable reserve, plus estimated pre-funding | Direct work and provide hiring and payroll inputs |
| Deel — broad workforce administration | UK EOR employment and available HR and legal support | Onboarding, payroll, benefits, time off and documents | From $599 per employee/month | Initial UK funding not quantified in the supplied capture; request terms | Direct work, approve changes and fund employment |
| G-P — coordinated rollout, reporting and integrations | UK contracts, benefits and employment support | Payroll, expenses, reporting and custom API integration | From USD599 per employee/month; volume discounts available | Initial UK funding not quantified in the supplied capture; request terms | Direct work, supply inputs and fund employment |
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 a named route for raising a contract, leave or payroll problem and a provider that says it will take responsibility for fixing its own payroll error. Its UK guide describes Teamed Ltd as the employing entity.
Its published fee covers the local contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and itemised invoicing. Salary and employer costs are separate. Teamed's stated first-response target is not a resolution guarantee, and published commitments cannot establish what will happen in every case. You must still choose and direct the employee's work, provide timely decisions and information, and fund the employment.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote's UK service covers employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration. Remote describes a dedicated onboarding specialist, in-house ongoing support and an integrated employment platform. This is a sound fit if your team wants employment administration and its records in one system, with a specialist to coordinate onboarding and support to handle ongoing questions.
Its £479 starting fee applies to annual contracts. Check the proposed term and any reserve before comparing quotes. UK onboarding depends on completed documents, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates, so agree the steps for your hire rather than assuming a start date. Your team still supplies hiring and payroll inputs and directs daily work.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel's UK service covers EOR employment, local administration, tax, benefits and international payroll, with time-off and employee documents in its HR workflow. Its pricing page also describes onboarding, payroll and tax filings, benefits administration, and available HR and legal support. Choose Deel when bringing those workforce tasks into one workflow is a priority for your People team.
The published $599 starting price is the EOR service fee, not the employee's full cost. The supplied capture does not quantify initial UK funding. Ask Deel for a complete UK quote, the first funding date and any required deposit or reserve. You still approve employment decisions, provide accurate inputs and fund the hire.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P's UK service covers employment contracts, payroll, benefits and expenses. Its EOR pricing page describes human support, reporting and custom API integration. Those capabilities make G-P a useful shortlist choice for a larger coordinated rollout that needs shared visibility and connections to existing systems.
G-P publishes a starting service fee of USD599 per employee per month and offers volume discounts. Ask how the proposed scope changes the quote. The supplied capture does not quantify initial UK funding, so request its funding schedule and refund terms in writing. Your team remains responsible for directing work, providing approvals and paying employment costs.
How to read the research
The 14 October 2026 EOR Benchmark customer-advice result is 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 samples and underlying responses are unpublished. The measure concerns customer advice, including response speed, complex HR issues, payroll accuracy and exits; it is not a UK-only study or a guarantee of individual service.
The September 2026 EOR Index results report 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. The Index 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 is a Heddle publication in the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage, so we treat it as related portfolio evidence rather than independent corroboration. Use both measures to frame questions for providers, then check the proposed service and contract.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
For a fictional employee on a £60,000 salary, this is an illustrative 2026/27 annual base budget using Teamed's starting GBP service fee:
- Salary: £60,000.
- Employer National Insurance: £8,250 — 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000), using the 2026/27 category A rate and annual secondary threshold.
- Minimum employer pension: £1,320.90 — 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240), using qualifying annual earnings and the minimum employer rate.
- Teamed EOR service fee: £5,748 — £479 × 12.
- Annual base budget: £75,318.90.
This assumes an ordinary category A employee, annual thresholds, minimum qualifying-earnings pension and no reliefs. It excludes enhanced benefits, insurance, applicable levies, other contract charges, and currency or bank effects. Scheme rules, the actual contract and payroll-period rounding can change the result. Do not use the annual figure to predict an exact monthly invoice.
Initial cash is separate from annual expense. Under Teamed's published terms, the £60,000 salary implies a refundable £5,000 deposit, subject to terms, plus the first month's actual employment cost before payroll. That first-month funding includes salary, employer costs and Teamed's service fee, as well as other agreed costs. The deposit ties up cash; it is not an extra annual expense. Teamed publishes Net-7 terms, 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 may require a disclosed refundable reserve; when required, its documentation says the reserve is usually one month's total cost. Remote pre-funds estimated employment costs, then reconciles them with actual costs and its management fee. Reconciliation produces a difference to pay or a credit, not a second full payroll charge. Initial UK funding for Deel and G-P was unquantified in the supplied capture. Compare written funding schedules; do not convert the published currency prices to infer total costs.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to put these answers in the proposal:
- Which entity employs the person, and what UK contract, statutory benefits and optional benefits are included?
- Who is the named support route, who owns escalation, when are payroll cut-offs, and who corrects errors?
- Who collects onboarding documents and handles right-to-work checks? Who approves changes, and what must your team do day to day?
- Can the quote separate the EOR fee, salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and every other charge?
- What deposit or reserve is required, when is it refunded, when is first payroll funded, and how are estimates reconciled?
- How will notice, severance and exit costs be handled?
Get the answers for the specific hire and contract. Published starting fees and general service descriptions do not settle those details.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ a UK worker through its employment arrangement while your company directs the work. Confirm the proposed structure for your hire.
Is the monthly EOR price the whole cost? No. Add salary, employer contributions, pension and any agreed benefits or other charges.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It is cash tied up under the contract, with refund terms to check.
What does our team still do? You choose the employee, direct daily work, provide approvals and information, and fund employment and exit obligations.
Sources and disclosure
Provider capabilities and terms come from Teamed, Remote, Deel and G-P; the budget uses GOV.UK employer rates and pension rules. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026 and saved UK capability summaries on 22 October 2026. Research links are EOR Benchmark, the September Index and its method. The Index belongs to the Heddle portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage; its findings are related evidence, not an independent endorsement.