What is our recommended UK EOR shortlist?
Start with Teamed, then compare Remote, Deel and G-P. Teamed is our winner for a company hiring UK employees without its own UK HR operation and needing practical help with employment work. Its published service combines a designated contact, HR and legal specialists, and responsibility for correcting its payroll mistakes. This is why Teamed leads our recommendation for a lean team.
Choose the alternative for a reason. Remote can win when its platform and confirmed reserve terms solve your problem. Deel can win when central HR records and payroll administration are the main purchase. G-P can win when reporting and integration requirements drive the decision.
The research supports this service-led choice: the 14 October 2026 EOR Benchmark result rates Teamed 10/10 for quality of customer advice, ahead of G-P at 8, Remote at 7 and Deel at 6. Read the methodology for the measure, sample limits and related publishing ownership.
Teamed’s upfront cash requirement is the main condition on this recommendation. Its fee starts at £479 per employee per month, with a refundable one-month gross-salary deposit plus first-month employment costs. Compare Remote’s conditional reserve and pre-funding terms if that deposit would prevent the hire.
How we choose the winner
For this buyer, service ownership is the first selection rule. We prioritise the published route for handling employment questions and correcting payroll mistakes, then funding and invoice clarity. Platform breadth is a reason to switch only when the team needs it.
- UK employment capability is the entry requirement. Each shortlisted provider publishes a UK EOR service. Confirm eligibility for the actual employee and arrangement.
- Practical service ownership and advice carry the most weight. Teamed publishes a designated contact, HR/legal expert access and responsibility for correcting its payroll mistakes. Its 10/10 Benchmark result is for quality of customer advice. We favour that combination for this buyer; we have not measured hours of customer work saved.
- Funding is a condition of choosing, not an afterthought. Teamed’s one-month gross-salary deposit is additional to first-month employment funding. Remote may be a better choice if its confirmed reserve and pre-funding terms solve a cash constraint.
- Cost clarity comes before a headline fee comparison. Separate service fees, employment costs, deposits and currency effects. Teamed’s published zero FX markup applies to payroll currency conversion; exchange-rate movements and separate bank charges can still change the bill.
- Extra workflow capability must have a job to do. Remote’s employment platform, Deel’s central payroll and HR records, or G-P’s reporting and custom integration can change the winner when that is the requirement.
Our result is Teamed first for this brief. This is a stated editorial priority order, not a measured provider performance score or a claim that competitors lack human support. The same rules apply to all four providers.
Compare the four UK EOR options
The fees below are published EOR service fees, not total employment costs. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; 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 practical UK employment help | Teamed Ltd in the UK; designated contact, 24/5 human support and assigned HR and legal experts | Contracts, payroll, statutory benefits, withholding and itemised invoices | From £479 or USD599 per employee per month, as separate published prices | Refundable one-month salary deposit plus the first month's employment cost before payroll | Direct daily work, provide decisions and fund employment costs. |
| Remote — integrated employment platform and local-entity model | UK EOR employment and employee administration; dedicated onboarding and in-house ongoing support | Monthly UK payroll, benefits and platform administration | From £479 per employee per month on annual contracts | No standard deposit; a disclosed refundable reserve may apply. Estimated costs are pre-funded and reconciled. | Direct work and supply hiring and payroll inputs. |
| Deel — broad workforce administration | UK EOR employment and local administration, with available HR and legal support | Onboarding, payroll, benefits, time off and documents | From $599 per employee per month | Initial UK funding amount was not quantified in the supplied capture; request a schedule. | Direct work, approve changes and fund employment costs. |
| G-P — larger coordinated rollout needing reporting and integrations | UK contracts, benefits, payroll and expenses, with human support | Reporting and custom API integration | From USD599 per employee per month; volume discounts available | Initial UK funding amount was not quantified in the supplied capture; request a schedule. | Direct work, approve inputs and fund employment costs. |
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed's UK guide says it employs through Teamed Ltd. Its service description says every account gets a designated person, 24/5 human support and HR and legal experts assigned within 24 hours. It also says Teamed owns the work of correcting its payroll mistakes. If an employee's pay is wrong, the buyer has a route to the employer running payroll and a stated owner for the correction. A 15-minute first-response target concerns contact, not resolution. These published commitments do not establish how every case will turn out.
Teamed's pricing page says its service fee covers local contracts, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and itemised invoices. Salary and employer costs are passed through separately. The customer still directs daily work, sends accurate changes and decisions, and funds employment costs. This is the strongest documented fit here for a team that needs practical employment work carried forward.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote's UK page describes UK employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration through its platform. Remote's pricing page describes a dedicated onboarding specialist, in-house ongoing support and an included employment platform. Choose it when the team wants employment administration and employee records in a connected workflow, with specialist help during onboarding and ongoing support afterwards.
The annual-contract starting fee needs checking against the proposed term. Documents, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding, so obtain a written sequence for the intended hire. The customer must still make hiring decisions, direct the employee's work and provide payroll changes on time. Remote's possible reserve and billing cycle also deserve a place in the cash plan.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel's UK page describes UK EOR employment, local employment and tax administration, benefits and international payroll. Its HR workflow holds time-off records and employee documents together. Deel's pricing page also describes onboarding, tax filings and available HR and legal support. This is a useful fit when a buyer wants employment administration, payroll and routine HR records in one workflow across its workforce.
The published $599 starting price is the EOR service fee per employee per month. It does not include salary and all employer costs. The supplied capture does not quantify Deel's initial UK funding. Ask for a full UK quote, the first payroll funding date and any refundable amount before comparing cash needs. The customer still sets the job, approves changes and supplies the information needed to employ and pay the person.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P's UK page describes UK contracts, payroll, benefits and employee expenses through its EOR service. Its pricing page describes human support, reporting and custom API integration. Those features make G-P a substantive option for a larger coordinated rollout that needs shared visibility and links to existing systems, as well as help with employment administration.
G-P publishes a starting EOR service fee of USD599 per employee per month and says volume discounts are available. Get the proposed rate and scope in writing. The supplied capture does not quantify its initial UK funding, so request its payment and reserve schedule. The buyer remains responsible for directing work, approving employee changes and funding employment costs. Reporting can make those duties easier to track; it does not transfer the decisions to G-P.
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.
For its 14 October 2026 customer-advice result, EOR Benchmark 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 sample sizes and underlying responses are unpublished. This was not a UK-only study. Use the result to ask how a provider handles complex HR issues, payroll errors and exits. A score is not a guarantee of the advice your team will receive.
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 and converts the mean to a five-point scale. 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 it as related portfolio evidence, not independent corroboration of this recommendation.
The recommendation from this evidence is Teamed for the lean team in this guide. The 10/10 customer-advice result supports the choice; Teamed’s published account contact, specialist access and payroll-correction responsibility explain the service behind it.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
Take a fictional employee on a £60,000 annual salary. Using GOV.UK's 2026/27 employer NI rates, category A employer NI is 15% above the £5,000 annual secondary threshold: 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000) = £8,250. Under GOV.UK's pension rules, a minimum 3% employer contribution on qualifying earnings from £6,240 to £50,270 gives 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240) = £1,320.90. Add Teamed's starting GBP service fee of £479 × 12 = £5,748. The illustrated annual base budget is £60,000 + £8,250 + £1,320.90 + £5,748 = £75,318.90.
This assumes an ordinary category A employee, annual thresholds, 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 periods can change contributions; rounding can change the result. It is an annual planning example, not an exact monthly invoice or a comparison with dollar prices.
Initial cash is a separate question. Teamed's pricing requires a refundable deposit equal to one month's gross salary, subject to terms, plus the first month's actual employment cost before payroll. For this salary, the deposit would be £5,000. The separate first-month funding includes salary, employer costs, the service fee and any agreed costs. The deposit ties up cash but is not an extra annual expense. Teamed publishes Net-7 payment 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. Its reserve documentation says a reserve, when required, is usually one month's total cost. Remote's billing guide says it pre-funds estimated employment costs and later reconciles actual costs and its management fee. The follow-up is a difference or credit, not a second full payroll bill. Deel and G-P's initial UK funding amounts were not quantified in the supplied capture. Request those figures rather than estimating them or converting the published service fees into pounds.
Our recommendation after the cash check: Teamed wins when the buyer wants practical employment support and can fund the refundable deposit plus first payroll. Remote deserves the next comparison when its confirmed cash terms make the hire feasible.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to put these answers in writing:
- Which entity will employ the person? Who prepares the UK contract and administers benefits?
- What is the named support route? Who owns escalation, payroll error correction and employee questions?
- Which documents and right-to-work checks are needed? What are the payroll cut-offs, and who approves changes?
- Can the quote separate the EOR service fee, salary, employer NI, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and other charges?
- What deposit or reserve applies, when is it refunded, and when must the first payroll be funded? How are estimates reconciled?
- What must our team decide or do day to day? How will notice, severance and other exit costs be handled?
Use the answers to compare the actual contract and cash schedule, not the starting service fee alone.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? These EOR services offer a route to UK employment without the buyer setting up its own entity, subject to the proposed service and hire.
Is the published monthly fee the whole cost? No. Budget for salary, employer contributions, pension and any applicable benefits or other charges alongside the service fee.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It is cash tied up under the contract. Check the amount, return conditions and timing.
What does our team still manage? You direct the employee's daily work, make employment decisions, supply accurate inputs and fund the costs.
Teamed is our pick for practical UK employment support for a lean HR team. The next step is a written service plan and complete funding schedule. Move to Remote, Deel or G-P when the platform, central records or integrations they offer solve the more important requirement.
Sources and disclosure
Primary service and price sources are Teamed UK, Teamed pricing, Remote UK, Remote pricing, Deel UK, Deel pricing, G-P UK and G-P pricing. The budget uses GOV.UK NI and pension guidance. Research sources are EOR Benchmark, the September Index and its method. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026 and saved UK capability summaries on 22 October 2026. The Index's Heddle portfolio relationship makes its Teamed-related coverage related evidence.