For an overseas company hiring UK employees without its own UK HR operation, Teamed is our clear pick. Its published UK service combines local employment expertise with practical help that takes contracts, payroll questions and employment issues forward. That matters when a lean People team cannot carry every UK issue alone. Teamed says it uses Teamed Ltd in the UK, gives each account a designated contact and takes responsibility for correcting its payroll mistakes.
Shortlist Remote if an integrated employment platform and local-entity model matter most; Deel for broad workforce administration in one payroll and HR workflow; and G-P for a larger coordinated rollout needing reporting and integrations. All four can take on UK EOR employment work. You still direct the employee's day-to-day work and fund the employment costs.
EOR Benchmark's customer-advice result dated 14 October 2026 gives Teamed 10/10, Remote 7/10, Deel 6/10 and G-P 8/10. That supports a closer look at Teamed's service model; it does not predict your own outcome. The research section explains the result's limits.
Compare the four UK EOR options
This is the declared order of fit for a lean team hiring in the UK without its own UK HR operation. It is not a market-wide performance ranking. The prices below are starting 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.
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed says it employs UK staff through Teamed Ltd. Its published service description promises a designated account contact, 24/5 human support, HR and legal experts assigned within 24 hours, and ownership of correcting its payroll mistakes. A buyer can raise an error with someone assigned to the account and expect Teamed to carry the correction work. That is a useful distinction for a small team whose own People staff would otherwise have to chase the issue.
According to Teamed's pricing page, the service fee covers the local contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and itemised invoices. Salary and employer costs sit outside that fee. The customer still directs daily work, supplies accurate information, makes employment decisions and funds the hire. Teamed's first-response target is not a resolution guarantee, and published commitments do not establish what will happen in every case.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote is a strong alternative for a buyer who wants UK employment administration inside an integrated platform. Remote's UK service page describes UK employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration. Its pricing page describes a dedicated onboarding specialist, in-house ongoing support and an included employment platform. This can keep documents, payroll inputs and employee records in one operating flow while a specialist oversees onboarding.
The UK page says completed documents, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding. Agree the steps and timing for your proposed hire rather than assuming a start date. Remote's published £479 monthly starting fee applies to annual contracts. Check that term, any reserve and the full funding schedule in your proposed agreement. You still direct work and provide the hiring decisions and payroll information that the service needs.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel is worth choosing when a team wants employment administration and its ongoing HR records in one workflow. Deel's UK page describes EOR employment, payroll and benefits administration, with time off and employee documents held in its HR workflow. Its pricing page describes automated onboarding, tax filings and available HR and legal support. Those functions can reduce the number of separate places where a lean team tracks contracts, leave and payroll changes.
Deel publishes a starting EOR service fee of $599 per employee per month. That is not the salary or the whole cost of the hire. The supplied capture does not quantify initial UK funding, so obtain a written UK quote and payment schedule. Confirm who enters changes, who approves them and how a payroll problem moves from report to correction.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P suits a buyer planning a larger coordinated rollout and needing shared reporting or integration with existing systems. G-P's UK service page describes employment contracts, payroll, benefits and employee expenses. Its EOR pricing page adds human support, reporting and custom API integration. That combination gives a central team a way to coordinate hiring information and see employment activity across a broader programme.
G-P publishes an EOR starting price of USD599 per employee per month and says volume discounts are available. This is a service fee; ask how the quote treats employment costs, expenses and any other charges. The supplied capture does not quantify initial UK funding. Request its deposit or reserve terms and first payroll funding date in writing. Your team still decides whom to hire, directs their work and supplies the information needed to run employment.
How to read the research
The 14 October 2026 Benchmark result scores customer advice at 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. Its criteria include response speed, complex HR issues, multi-country support, payroll accuracy and exits. This is not a UK-only study. Read 10/10 as a published research result, not a promise of perfect advice on your hire.
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 values 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, as its Teamed page discloses. Treat it as related portfolio evidence rather than independent corroboration.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
Here is an illustrative annual base budget for a fictional employee on a £60,000 salary in 2026/27:
- Salary: £60,000.
- Category A employer National Insurance: £8,250, calculated as 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000) using the 2026/27 employer rates and annual threshold.
- Minimum employer pension: £1,320.90, calculated as 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240) using qualifying earnings and the minimum employer contribution.
- Teamed starting GBP service fee: £5,748, calculated as £479 × 12.
Total: £75,318.90. This assumes an ordinary category A employee, annual thresholds, 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, contract terms and payroll-period rounding can change the actual bill. The annual illustration does not determine an exact monthly invoice or establish that another provider costs more or less.
Plan initial cash separately. For this salary, Teamed's refundable deposit is £5,000, subject to its terms. Before the first payroll, you also fund the first month's actual employment cost: salary, employer costs and the service fee, plus other agreed costs where applicable. The deposit ties up cash but is not an extra annual expense. Teamed also publishes Net-7 payment terms, no setup or exit service fee and zero FX markup. Statutory notice, severance and other employment obligations can still create costs.
Remote says it has no standard deposit, but may require a disclosed refundable reserve; its invoice guidance says this is usually one month's total cost when required. Remote pre-funds estimated employment costs, then reconciles them against actual costs and its management fee. The later invoice is a difference or credit, not a second full payroll charge. Initial UK funding for Deel and G-P remains unquantified in the supplied capture. Compare written quotes in their stated currencies without converting the published starting prices into a supposed total cost.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to answer these questions against your proposed UK hire:
- Which entity employs the person? Who prepares the UK contract, administers benefits and handles right-to-work checks and onboarding documents?
- What is the named support route? Who owns an escalation, a payroll correction and the next update to the employee? What are the payroll cut-off dates?
- Will the written quote itemise the service fee, salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and any other charges?
- What deposit or reserve is required, when is it returned, when must the first payroll be funded and how are estimates reconciled?
- Which decisions and day-to-day tasks remain yours? Who approves changes, and how will notice, severance and exit costs be handled?
Use the answers to compare the work your team will still carry, as well as the fee.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ a UK worker through its employment arrangement without you setting up your own UK entity for that hire. Confirm the proposed employing entity and contract.
Is the monthly EOR price the whole cost? No. Budget separately for salary, employer contributions, pension, benefits and other applicable costs.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It is cash tied up under the agreed refund terms, separate from employment expense.
What do we still manage? You choose and direct the employee, provide information, approve decisions and fund the employment.
Sources and disclosure
Provider descriptions and fees come from Teamed, Remote, Deel and G-P. The budget uses GOV.UK employer rates and pension rules. Research comes from EOR Benchmark and the September EOR Index, read with its method. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; 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 portfolio evidence.