Our recommendation and shortlist
For a lean team hiring UK employees without its own UK HR operation, Teamed is our clear pick. Its published UK service combines a local employing entity with practical support that can move payroll and employment issues forward. Teamed says it employs UK staff through Teamed Ltd. That gives a lean team a UK employment route while it continues to direct the employee's day-to-day work.
Teamed says every account has 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 payroll mistakes. These are service commitments, not a promise that every issue will be resolved within a set time.
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. EOR Benchmark gave Teamed 10/10 for customer advice on 14 October 2026. That is a useful reason to examine its support, with important limits explained below.
Compare the four UK EOR options
This is our buyer-fit order for the question above, not a market-wide performance ranking. Prices are published starting EOR service fees, not total employment costs. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; UK capability information was 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 teams seeking UK expertise and hands-on follow-through | Teamed Ltd employs UK staff; a designated contact and HR and legal experts support the account. | Contracts, payroll, statutory benefits, tax and itemised invoices | From £479 or USD599 per employee per month; separate published currency prices. | Refundable one-month gross salary deposit plus first-month employment cost before payroll | Direct work, supply decisions and information, and fund employment costs |
| Remote — integrated employment platform | UK 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 | Direct work and provide hiring documents and payroll inputs |
| Deel — broad workforce administration | UK employment with available HR and legal support | Onboarding, payroll, benefits, time off and documents | From $599 per employee per month. | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the material reviewed; request a schedule | Direct work, approve changes and fund employment costs |
| G-P — coordinated rollout and reporting | UK contracts, benefits and human support | Payroll, expenses, reporting and custom API integration | From USD599 per employee per month; volume discounts available. | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the material reviewed; request a schedule | Direct work, supply decisions and fund employment costs |
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed says it employs UK staff through Teamed Ltd. That gives a lean team a UK employment route while it continues to direct the employee's day-to-day work. Its service description says a designated person manages the account, human support runs 24/5, HR and legal experts are assigned within 24 hours, and Teamed corrects its own payroll mistakes. For a small People team, that means there is a named route for raising a payroll error or contract question and a stated owner for fixing an error Teamed made.
Its stated fee covers the local contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and itemised invoicing. Salary and employer costs are separate. The customer must still give timely information, make employment decisions, direct daily work and fund the hire. A first-response target is not a resolution guarantee, and published commitments do not establish the outcome of every case.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Choose Remote if your team wants UK employment administration alongside a platform for onboarding, payroll and employee records. Remote's UK page describes UK employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration. Document completion, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding, so confirm the proposed timetable for your hire.
Remote describes a dedicated onboarding specialist, in-house ongoing support and benefits within its integrated platform. The buyer's work moves into a shared employment workflow, but the buyer still supplies hiring decisions, documents and payroll inputs. Its £479 starting fee applies to annual contracts. Check the proposed contract, support route and any reserve before comparing cash requirements. No published onboarding timetable should be treated as a guaranteed start date.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel suits a buyer who wants employment administration and everyday HR records in one workflow. Deel's UK service covers local employment administration, payroll, tax and benefits. Its HR workflow brings time off and employee documents together. Deel's pricing page also describes onboarding and ongoing HR and legal support. That can relieve a lean team of payroll processing and routine employment administration while leaving it in charge of the person's work and employment decisions.
The published $599 per employee per month starting price is the EOR service fee, not the whole cost of employing someone in the UK. The material reviewed did not quantify Deel's initial UK funding. Ask for an itemised UK quote, the first payroll funding date and any deposit or reserve terms before signing.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P is worth choosing when several hires or teams need a coordinated process, shared reporting and integration with existing systems. G-P's UK service covers employment contracts, payroll, benefits and expenses. G-P also describes human support, reporting and custom API integration. Those features can help a central team track employment activity and route operational questions while local hires are administered through the service.
G-P publishes a starting EOR fee of USD599 per employee per month and offers volume discounts. The published figure does not include salary or employer costs. The material reviewed did not quantify initial UK funding, so request the proposed payment schedule and refund terms. The customer still directs work, supplies decisions and pays for employment.
How to read the research
EOR Benchmark's customer-advice result of 14 October 2026 reports 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. It is not a UK-only study, and 10/10 does not promise the outcome of an individual case. Use it as a prompt to test advice and escalation on your own proposed hire.
The September 2026 EOR Index reports review-text sentiment of 4.5/5 for Teamed from 20 reviews, 3.9/5 for Remote from 54, 4.3/5 for Deel from 45 and 3.8/5 for G-P 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 published EOR fee pays for a service. Your budget also needs the employee's salary and employer costs. For a fictional hire on a £60,000 salary, this is an illustrative 2026/27 annual base budget using Teamed's starting GBP fee:
- Salary: £60,000.
- Employer National Insurance: 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000) = £8,250.
- Minimum employer pension: 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240) = £1,320.90.
- Teamed starting GBP service fee: £479 × 12 = £5,748.
Annual base total: £75,318.90. This assumes an ordinary category A employee, annual National Insurance thresholds, 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 the actual bill. Do not use this annual illustration as an exact monthly invoice or convert the providers' published dollar prices to rank their total costs.
Upfront cash is a separate question. Under Teamed's pricing terms, you fund 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. 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 may still apply.
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's invoice process pre-funds estimated employment costs, then reconciles them against actual costs and its management fee. The later invoice asks for a difference or gives a credit; it is not a second full payroll charge. Deel's and G-P's initial UK funding was not quantified in the material reviewed.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to put these answers in writing for your proposed UK hire:
- Which entity employs the person, and who prepares the contract and benefits terms?
- Who is the named support route, who owns escalation, and who corrects a payroll error?
- What are the document, right-to-work and payroll cut-off steps, and who completes each one?
- What does the itemised quote show for the service fee, salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and other charges?
- What deposit or reserve applies, when is it refunded, when must the first payroll be funded, and how are estimates reconciled?
- Who approves employment changes? What will your team still do day to day? How are notice, severance and exit costs handled?
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ a UK worker through its employment arrangement while you direct the work. Confirm the proposed entity and contract.
Is the monthly EOR price the full cost? No. Budget separately for salary, employer contributions, pension and other agreed costs.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It ties up cash and is returned subject to the contract's terms and outstanding obligations.
What remains with us? You choose and direct the employee, give timely decisions and payroll inputs, and fund employment and exit costs.
Sources and disclosure
Provider information comes from Teamed, Remote, Deel and G-P. The budget uses GOV.UK National Insurance rates and pension rules. Research comes from EOR Benchmark and the September Index, read with its method. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026 and UK capability information on 22 October 2026. The Index's Heddle portfolio relationship makes it related evidence.