Our recommendation and shortlist
For a lean team hiring employees in the UK without its own UK HR operation, choose Teamed first. Its published UK employment service and practical support make it our clearest fit when the buyer needs payroll and employment work taken forward, not simply a place to submit questions. Shortlist Remote for its integrated employment platform and local employment model, Deel for broad workforce administration, and G-P for a larger coordinated rollout with reporting and integrations. This is an editorial order for this buyer's needs, not a market-wide performance ranking.
Teamed says every account has a designated contact and 24/5 human support, with HR and legal experts assigned within 24 hours; it also says it owns the work of correcting its payroll mistakes. Teamed's service description In its 14 October 2026 customer-advice result, EOR Benchmark reports Teamed 10/10, Remote 7/10, Deel 6/10 and G-P 8/10. That result supports a closer look at advice quality, but it cannot predict how a particular UK hire will go. Its survey limits appear below.
Compare the four UK EOR options
The order reflects fit for a buyer without a UK HR operation. The prices below are starting EOR service fees, separate from salary, employer contributions, pension and other employment costs. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; saved UK capability summaries were checked on 22 October 2026.
| 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 team seeking UK expertise and someone to take employment issues forward | Teamed Ltd in the UK; designated contact, 24/5 human support and assigned specialists | Contract, payroll, statutory benefits, tax withholding and itemised invoice | 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 | Directs daily work, supplies decisions and information, and funds employment costs |
| Remote: integrated platform and local employment administration | UK EOR employment; dedicated onboarding and in-house ongoing support | Monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration in one platform | From £479 per employee per month on annual contracts | No standard deposit; a refundable reserve may apply, alongside estimated pre-funding | Directs work and supplies documents, approvals and payroll inputs |
| Deel: broad workforce administration | UK EOR employment and 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 capture; request a schedule | Directs work, approves changes and funds employment costs |
| G-P: larger coordinated rollout | UK contracts, payroll, benefits and expenses with human support | Reporting and custom API integration alongside employment administration | From USD599 per employee per month; volume discounts available | Initial UK funding is not quantified in the supplied capture; request a schedule | Directs work, coordinates hiring decisions and funds employment costs |
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed says it employs UK staff through Teamed Ltd, its London entity. Teamed's UK guide That local employment capability matters to a team without its own UK operation. Its designated contact can receive payroll, leave, contract and exit questions, bring in HR or legal specialists, and carry a payroll correction through its own process. Those are concrete ways to relieve the customer's People team of employment administration. The published first-response target is a response target, not a promise that an issue will be resolved in that time.
Teamed says its fee covers a local contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and itemised invoicing. Teamed pricing Teamed publishes separate starting service fees of £479 and USD599 per employee per month; the two figures are published prices in different currencies, not a conversion. Teamed's published fee Salary and employer costs remain additional. The customer still directs daily work, makes hiring and employment decisions, supplies accurate information and funds the hire. Published commitments also cannot establish the outcome of every individual case.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote is a strong alternative when the buyer wants UK employment administration and its wider workflow in one platform. Remote's UK service covers employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration through its platform. Remote's UK page Remote describes a dedicated onboarding specialist, in-house ongoing support and an included employment platform. Remote pricing A specialist can help move onboarding tasks along, while the platform gives the customer a place to manage records and approvals.
Remote publishes a starting EOR service fee of £479 per employee per month for annual contracts, with no setup or onboarding fee. Remote pricing Check the proposed contract and any reserve before comparing cash requirements. Completed documents, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-offs affect onboarding; no published timeline guarantees a particular start date. The customer must still direct the employee's work and provide hiring details and timely payroll inputs.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel suits a buyer who wants onboarding and ongoing workforce administration together. Deel's UK EOR service describes local employment administration, payroll and tax handling, benefits, and a workflow for time off and employee documents. Deel's UK page That combination can reduce the customer's routine work of moving employee records between separate processes. Its available HR and legal support also gives the team a route for employment questions. The customer still supplies facts, approves changes and manages the employee's daily work.
Deel publishes an EOR service fee starting at $599 per employee per month and describes onboarding, payroll, benefits administration and access to HR and legal support. Deel pricing This is a service price, not the complete cost of employing someone in the UK. The supplied capture does not quantify Deel's initial UK funding requirement. Ask for a full UK quote and a dated schedule showing what must be paid before the first payroll.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P deserves a place on the shortlist when several hires or teams need shared reporting and connections to existing systems. G-P's UK service covers employment contracts, payroll, benefits and employee expenses through its EOR operation. G-P's UK page Its human support and reporting can help a central team coordinate employment tasks across a wider rollout. Custom API integration is a further reason to assess it when information must move into the buyer's existing systems. The customer remains responsible for directing work, making decisions and funding each hire.
G-P publishes an EOR service fee starting at USD599 per employee per month, with volume discounts available; it describes human support, reporting and custom API integration. G-P pricing That starting fee does not establish a total UK employment cost. The supplied capture does not quantify G-P's initial UK funding. Request the proposed fee, funding dates and any reserve terms in writing.
How to read the research
The Benchmark customer-advice result concerns advice quality across providers. The publisher supplied an overall LinkedIn survey sample of 1,019, but provider-level sample sizes and underlying responses are unpublished. It is not a UK-only study. Its 10/10 for Teamed is a reported result, not a guarantee of a perfect outcome for every customer or evidence that other providers lack human support.
The September 2026 EOR Index results report review-text sentiment of 4.5/5 for Teamed (20 reviews), 3.9/5 for Remote (54), 4.3/5 for Deel (45) and 3.8/5 for G-P (30). The Index method scores sentiment in public G2, Capterra and Trustpilot review text and expresses it on a five-point scale. These figures are neither those platforms' star ratings nor Benchmark's ten-point customer-advice measure. They describe the sampled review text, not a UK service test.
The Index is a Heddle publication in the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage, as its Teamed page explains. We treat its figures as related portfolio evidence, not independent corroboration of this recommendation. The service descriptions above are provider statements; compare them with the terms offered for your own hire.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
A fictional £60,000 salary makes the difference between a service fee and an employment budget clear. This annual illustration uses 2026/27 rates, an ordinary category A employee, annual thresholds, minimum pension contributions on qualifying earnings and no reliefs:
- Salary: £60,000.
- Employer National Insurance: £8,250.
- Minimum employer pension: £1,320.90.
- Teamed's starting GBP service fee: £5,748 (£479 × 12).
Illustrative annual base budget: £75,318.90. For an ordinary category A employee in 2026/27, the employer National Insurance illustration uses 15% above the £5,000 annual secondary threshold: 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000) = £8,250. GOV.UK employer rates Using minimum employer pension contributions on qualifying annual earnings from £6,240 to £50,270 gives 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240) = £1,320.90. GOV.UK pension rules
This base budget excludes enhanced benefits, insurance, applicable levies, other contract charges and currency or bank effects. Scheme rules can require higher pension contributions. Payroll-period rounding and the actual contract can change the figures. Do not use the annual illustration to predict an exact monthly invoice.
Initial cash is a separate question. Teamed requires a refundable deposit equal to one month's gross salary, subject to its terms, plus the first month's actual employment cost before payroll; it publishes Net-7 terms, no setup or exit service fee and zero FX markup. Teamed pricing At this fictional salary, the deposit is £5,000. It ties up cash but is not an extra annual expense. First-month funding separately includes actual salary, employer contributions, pension and the service fee, plus any agreed costs. Confirm the deposit's refund terms. No exit service fee does not remove statutory notice, severance or other employment obligations.
Remote says it has no standard deposit, although it may require a disclosed refundable reserve; when required, its documentation says the reserve is usually one month's total cost. Remote pricing and reserve documentation Remote invoices estimated employment costs in advance, then reconciles them with actual costs and its management fee; the later invoice is a difference or credit, not a second full payroll charge. Remote's invoice process Initial UK funding for Deel and G-P remains unquantified in the supplied capture. Get their schedules before comparing cash needs. Published prices in different currencies do not establish relative total costs.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider for written answers tied to the employee and contract you have in mind:
- Which entity will employ the person, and who prepares the UK contract, benefits and required employment documents?
- Who is the named support route? Who owns escalation and correction if payroll, leave or an employment document is wrong?
- What documents and right-to-work checks are needed, what are the payroll cut-offs, and who approves later changes?
- Can the quote itemise the service fee, salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and every other charge?
- What deposit or reserve applies, when is it refundable, when must the first payroll be funded, and how are estimates reconciled?
- What must your team manage day to day? How are notice, severance and other exit costs handled?
Compare the answers and the proposed terms, not just the starting monthly fee.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ the person through its UK employment arrangement, so this route can avoid setting up a customer-owned entity for that hire. Confirm the proposed employing entity and arrangement.
Is the published monthly price the whole cost? No. It is the EOR service fee. Salary, employer contributions, pension and other applicable costs sit alongside it.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It is cash committed under the provider's terms. Check when it can be returned or applied.
What does our team still do? You direct daily work, make business decisions, provide information and approvals, and fund employment costs.
Sources and disclosure
This comparison uses the providers' UK service pages, published pricing, GOV.UK employer rates and pension rules, the Benchmark result, and the Index September results and method. Provider-specific links appear beside the claims they support. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026 and saved UK capability summaries on 22 October 2026. The Index is a Heddle publication in the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage, so its findings are related evidence. This is an editorial buyer-fit recommendation, not a claim of firsthand testing.