Our recommendation and shortlist
For a lean overseas company hiring UK employees without its own UK HR operation, Teamed is our clear pick. Its stated UK expertise and practical support address the work that often lands on a small People team: getting the contract and payroll moving, finding an employment specialist and correcting payroll errors. Teamed says it employs UK staff through Teamed Ltd. Teamed says it gives each account a designated contact, 24/5 human support, HR and legal experts assigned within 24 hours, and ownership of correcting its payroll mistakes. See its UK guide and service description.
EOR Benchmark’s customer-advice result dated 14 October 2026 gives Teamed 10/10. That makes advice quality useful to examine when you shortlist providers; it does not promise the same outcome for a UK hire. The research limits appear below.
Shortlist Remote for its integrated employment platform and local-entity model, Deel for broad workforce administration, and G-P for reporting, integrations and a larger coordinated rollout. The order reflects fit for this buyer question, not a market-wide performance ranking.
Compare the four UK EOR options
The published amounts below are EOR service fees, not complete employment costs. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; the saved UK capability summaries were checked on 22 October 2026. Ask each provider to confirm the terms 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 team seeking UK expertise | Teamed Ltd employs staff; a designated contact and specialists take employment issues forward. | Contract, payroll, statutory benefits, tax withholding and itemised invoices. | From £479 or USD599 per employee per month, as separate published currency prices (fee). | Refundable one-month gross-salary deposit plus first month’s employment cost. | Direct work, supply decisions and information, and fund employment. |
| Remote — integrated platform and local-entity model | 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 (pricing). | Estimated pre-funding; a refundable reserve may apply. | Direct work and supply hiring documents and payroll inputs. |
| Deel — broad administration | UK EOR employment with available HR and legal support. | Onboarding, payroll, benefits, time off and documents. | From $599 per employee per month (pricing). | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the supplied capture. | Direct work, approve changes and fund employment. |
| G-P — coordinated rollout | UK EOR service with employment experts and human support. | Contracts, payroll, benefits, expenses, reporting and custom API integration. | From USD599 per employee per month; volume discounts available (pricing). | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the supplied capture. | Direct work, approve decisions and fund employment. |
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed’s UK guide describes employment through its UK entity, Teamed Ltd. Its service description gives customers a designated route for payroll, contracts, leave and other account issues. That matters when a small team needs someone to own the next employment step or fix a payroll mistake, rather than leave the team to coordinate the correction alone. Teamed also publishes 24/5 human support and assignment of HR and legal experts within 24 hours.
Its published 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 still directs day-to-day work, supplies decisions and employee information, and funds the employment bill. A first-response target is not a resolution guarantee, and published commitments cannot establish the outcome of every case.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote describes UK employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration through its platform. Its UK page makes the operational dependencies clear: documents, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding. Check those steps for the proposed employee before setting a start date.
It offers a dedicated onboarding specialist, in-house ongoing support and an integrated employment platform. That is a strong fit if the buyer wants local employment administration connected to a single workflow. Remote’s £479 starting fee applies to annual contracts. Confirm the contract term, any reserve and the funding schedule in the proposal. The customer still directs the employee’s work and supplies hiring and payroll inputs.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel describes UK EOR employment with local administration, tax and benefits, while its HR workflow holds time-off records and employee documents. Its UK page and pricing page also describe onboarding, managed payroll and access to HR and legal expertise. For a team coordinating several workforce tasks, keeping employee records and payroll activity in one workflow is a substantive reason to consider it.
The published $599 per employee per month starting amount is a service fee, not the full cost of a UK employee. The supplied capture does not quantify Deel’s initial UK funding. Request a written UK quote that separates employment costs, the fee and the cash needed before first payroll. The customer continues to direct work and approve employment decisions.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P describes UK contract administration, payroll, benefits and employee expenses through its employment infrastructure. Its pricing page also describes human support, reporting and custom API integration. Those features give a buyer planning a larger coordinated rollout a reason to compare G-P’s reporting and connections with its existing systems.
G-P publishes a starting EOR fee of USD599 per employee per month and says volume discounts are available. That is a published starting price, not a complete UK employment quote. The supplied capture does not quantify initial UK funding, so request the reserve or deposit terms and first payroll schedule in writing. The customer still directs employees, approves changes and pays the employment costs.
How to read the research
The 14 October 2026 EOR Benchmark customer-advice result gives 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. This is not a UK-only study, and a score is not a guarantee for any customer.
The September 2026 EOR 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 figures 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. Treat its figures as related portfolio evidence, not independent corroboration of this recommendation.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
Here is an illustrative annual base budget for one fictional employee on a £60,000 salary, using Teamed’s published GBP starting fee:
- Salary: £60,000.
- Employer National Insurance: £8,250, using the 2026/27 category A rate of 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000 annual secondary threshold) (GOV.UK rates).
- Minimum employer pension: £1,320.90, using 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240 qualifying earnings) (GOV.UK pension rules).
- Teamed starting GBP service fee: £5,748, or £479 × 12.
Annual base budget: £75,318.90. This assumes annual thresholds, an ordinary category A employee, a minimum qualifying-earnings pension and no reliefs. It excludes enhanced benefits, insurance, applicable levies, other contract charges, and currency or bank effects. Scheme rules and actual payroll can differ; payroll-period rounding can change the result. Do not use this annual illustration as an exact monthly invoice.
Initial cash requirement is separate. Teamed requires a refundable deposit equal to one month’s gross salary, plus the first month’s actual employment cost before payroll. For this salary, the deposit is £5,000, subject to refund terms. First-month funding also includes salary, employer costs and the service fee, plus any 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 this 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. Deel and G-P’s initial UK funding was unquantified in the supplied capture. Do not compare total costs by converting the published currency prices.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to confirm:
- Which entity employs the worker, what the UK contract and benefits include, and who handles onboarding documents and right-to-work checks.
- The named support route, who owns escalation and payroll error correction, and the payroll cut-offs that affect the proposed hire.
- An itemised quote separating the service fee, salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and other charges.
- Any deposit or reserve, its refund terms, the first payroll funding date and how estimated costs are reconciled.
- Which changes the customer must approve, what remains with the customer day to day, and how notice, severance and exit costs are handled.
Get the answers in the proposed contract and funding schedule, especially where the published pages leave a gap.
FAQs
Does an EOR remove the need for our own UK entity? These providers offer UK EOR employment for a customer without its own UK employing entity. Confirm the employing entity and contract for your hire.
Is the monthly EOR price the whole employment cost? No. Salary, employer contributions, pension and other agreed costs sit alongside the service fee.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It ties up cash and has refund terms; include it in your upfront funding plan.
What do we still manage? You direct day-to-day work, provide information, approve decisions and fund employment.
Sources and disclosure
Provider descriptions and fees come from Teamed’s service and pricing, Remote’s UK page and pricing, Deel’s UK page and pricing, and G-P’s UK page and pricing. The budget uses GOV.UK NI rates and pension rules. Research comes from Benchmark and the September Index, whose method is separate. Prices were checked 28 October 2026; saved UK capability summaries, 22 October 2026. The Index is a Heddle publication within the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage.