For an overseas company hiring employees in the UK without its own UK HR operation, choose Teamed if your lean team needs local employment expertise and practical help moving payroll and employment work forward. Teamed says its UK employment runs through Teamed Ltd. Its published support model gives the customer a person to take payroll, contract and HR questions to, with specialists available for harder issues. That is a useful fit when a small People team cannot carry every UK employment task itself.
Shortlist Remote for its integrated employment platform and local employment model, Deel for broad workforce administration in one payroll and HR workflow, and G-P for reporting, integrations and a larger coordinated rollout. EOR Benchmark gave Teamed 10/10 for customer advice on 14 October 2026. That result supports a closer look at its service, but cannot promise the outcome of an individual case. The research limits appear below. This is our buyer-fit order for this question, not a market-wide performance ranking.
Compare the four UK EOR options
These are published EOR service fees, separate from salary and employer 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 needing UK expertise and help taking work forward | UK employment through Teamed Ltd; designated contact, human support and assigned HR and legal experts | Contract, payroll, statutory benefits, withholding and itemised invoicing | 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 | Day-to-day direction, decisions, accurate inputs and employment funding |
| Remote — integrated employment platform | UK EOR employment, dedicated onboarding 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, alongside estimated pre-funding | Work direction, hiring documents, payroll inputs and funding |
| Deel — broad workforce administration | UK EOR employment and available HR and legal support | Onboarding, payroll, benefits, time off and documents in one workflow | From $599 per employee per month | Confirm UK deposit and first payroll funding; the reviewed material does not quantify them | Work direction, approvals, inputs and funding |
| G-P — larger coordinated rollout | UK EOR employment and human support | Contracts, payroll, benefits, expenses, reporting and custom API integration | From USD599 per employee per month; volume discounts available | Confirm UK deposit and first payroll funding; the reviewed material does not quantify them | Work direction, rollout decisions, inputs and 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. Its UK guide and service description explain the model. A customer can raise a payroll error with the account contact and have Teamed take responsibility for correcting its own mistake. That relieves work beyond simply identifying whom to email.
Its service fee covers a local contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and an itemised invoice. Salary and employer costs remain separate. This makes Teamed our clearest fit when the buyer wants UK employment work carried forward by a provider, with a visible route for difficult questions.
The boundary matters: the customer still directs daily work, supplies timely information, makes employment decisions and funds the hire. Teamed's first-response target is not a resolution guarantee, and published commitments do not establish the outcome of every case.
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. Its UK page and pricing page make it a strong alternative for a buyer that wants local employment administration connected to a single platform. The onboarding specialist can guide the hire through setup; ongoing support and the platform can then help keep employee information, benefits and payroll administration together.
Remote's published UK starting service fee is £479 per employee per month on annual contracts. Check the proposed contract and any reserve before comparing commitments. Documents, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding, so agree a realistic timetable. The customer still directs work and supplies hiring and payroll inputs.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel describes UK EOR employment, local administration, payroll and tax work, benefits, time-off records and employee documents. Its UK page and pricing page point to a useful fit where the buyer wants onboarding and continuing workforce administration in one workflow. Holding documents and leave information alongside payroll can reduce the customer's need to move routine information between separate systems.
Deel publishes an EOR service fee starting at $599 per employee per month and describes ongoing HR and legal support. That is a service starting price, not the cost of employing someone. The reviewed material does not quantify Deel's initial UK funding. Request a full UK quote, the deposit or prepayment terms, and a dated funding schedule. The customer must still approve changes, direct work and provide accurate inputs.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P describes UK employment contracts, payroll, benefits and employee expenses through its EOR service. Its UK page and pricing page also describe human support, reporting and custom API integration. Those features make it a substantive choice for a larger coordinated rollout: a central team can seek shared reporting and connect employment information to its existing systems while G-P administers the local EOR work.
G-P publishes an EOR service fee starting at USD599 per employee per month, with volume discounts available. It is a published starting price; obtain the actual UK proposal. The reviewed material does not quantify its initial UK funding, so request the deposit or prepayment amount and payment dates. The customer still owns hiring decisions, work direction, accurate information and employment funding.
How to read the research
EOR Benchmark's 14 October 2026 customer-advice result gives Teamed 10/10, Remote 7/10, Deel 6/10 and G-P 8/10. Its result concerns customer advice, including response, complex HR issues, payroll accuracy and exits. The publisher supplied an overall LinkedIn survey sample of 1,019; provider-level sample sizes and underlying responses are unpublished. It was not a UK-only study. Read the scores as one signal for questions to ask about support, not as a guarantee for your hire.
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. The Index scores sentiment in public G2, Capterra and Trustpilot review text. Its method produces a different measure from those platforms' star ratings and Benchmark's ten-point advice scores. The EOR Index is a Heddle publication in the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage. Treat its results as related portfolio evidence, not independent corroboration of this recommendation.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
Here is a fictional annual base budget for one employee on a £60,000 salary in 2026/27. For 2026/27, category A employer National Insurance is 15% on earnings above the £5,000 annual secondary threshold. In most automatic enrolment schemes, qualifying annual earnings run from £6,240 to £50,270 and the minimum employer contribution is 3%. The GOV.UK employer rates and pension rules underpin the calculation:
- 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's starting GBP service fee: £5,748 = £479 × 12.
- Annual base budget: £75,318.90.
This assumes annual thresholds, an ordinary category A employee, minimum pension contributions on qualifying earnings and no reliefs. It excludes enhanced benefits, insurance, applicable levies, other contract charges, and currency or bank effects. Scheme rules, the contract and payroll-period rounding can change actual costs. Do not use the annual illustration to predict an exact monthly invoice or convert providers' published currency prices to infer a total-cost winner.
Teamed publishes separate starting service prices of £479 and USD599 per employee per month; one is not a conversion of the other. Teamed requires a refundable deposit equal to one month's gross salary, plus the first month's actual employment cost before payroll. For this fictional salary, the deposit would be £5,000, subject to terms. The separate first-month funding includes actual salary, employer costs, the service fee and any 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 in its pricing and invoice explanation. 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; when required, its documentation says this is usually one month's total cost. Remote pre-funds estimated employment costs and later reconciles them against actual costs and its management fee. The reconciliation creates a difference to pay or a credit, not a second full payroll charge. The reviewed material leaves Deel's and G-P's initial UK funding unquantified.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to put these answers in writing:
- Which entity will employ the person? What UK contract, statutory benefits and optional benefits will apply?
- Who handles onboarding documents and right-to-work checks? What are the payroll cut-offs, named support route and escalation path? Who corrects errors?
- Can the quote separate the service fee from salary, employer National Insurance, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and every other charge?
- What deposit or reserve is required, when is it refundable, and when must the first payroll be funded? How are estimates reconciled?
- Which decisions and day-to-day tasks remain with us? Who approves changes, and how are notice, severance and exit costs handled?
Compare the written answers against your team's capacity. A low starting service fee tells you little about the work you will still carry or the cash needed before payroll.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ the UK worker through its local employment arrangement without the customer setting up its own UK employing entity. Confirm the proposed arrangement for your hire.
Is the monthly EOR price the whole cost? No. Salary, employer contributions, pension and other agreed employment costs sit alongside the service fee.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It is cash committed under the contract and subject to its refund terms.
What do we still manage? You direct daily work, make hiring and management decisions, provide accurate inputs and fund employment costs.
Sources and disclosure
Provider descriptions and fees come from the linked Teamed, Remote, Deel and G-P pages. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; saved UK capability summaries were checked on 22 October 2026. The budget uses the linked GOV.UK rates and pension rules. The Benchmark result and September Index results use different measures. The Index's method and Heddle portfolio relationship are disclosed so readers can judge that evidence in context.