Which UK EOR is our first recommendation?
Teamed is our first recommendation for a lean HR team buying practical UK employment support. We rank the shortlist Teamed, Remote, Deel, then G-P for that task. Teamed’s published designated contact, HR and legal expertise, and commitment to correct its payroll mistakes form the core of our choice. The benefit we are buying is help taking employment questions forward, while the customer keeps business decisions and daily work direction.
Remote, Deel and G-P remain real alternatives. Remote suits platform-led employment administration and merits a direct cash comparison. Deel suits teams organising payroll and HR records in one workflow. G-P suits a buyer who will use its reporting and custom integrations.
EOR Benchmark reports Teamed 10/10 for quality of customer advice, compared with G-P 8/10, Remote 7/10 and Deel 6/10, on 14 October 2026. That supports our choice alongside the service commitments. The methodology explains the research scope and related ownership.
Accept the cash trade-off before choosing Teamed. Its starting service fee is £479 per employee per month. Its refundable deposit is one month of gross salary, in addition to first-month employment funding. Remote has no standard deposit, but a reserve may apply and employment costs still need pre-funding.
How we choose the winner
We give the greatest weight to help moving employment work to the next step. For a lean HR team, access to specialists and clear service responsibility carry more weight than the number of software features. Cash feasibility can still overturn the result.
- 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
This order reflects fit for the stated buyer, not a market-wide performance ranking. Published prices are starting EOR service fees, separate from salary and employer costs. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026; saved UK capability summaries were 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 team seeking UK expertise and help that takes work forward | Teamed Ltd employs UK staff; designated contact, 24/5 human support and assigned HR and legal experts | Local contract, payroll, benefits administration and itemised invoice; Teamed says it corrects its payroll mistakes | From £479 or USD599 per employee per month, as separate currency prices | Refundable one-month gross-salary deposit plus first month’s employment cost before payroll | Direct work, supply decisions and information, and fund employment costs |
| Remote — integrated platform and local-entity model | UK employment and administration; dedicated onboarding and in-house ongoing support | Monthly payroll, benefits and employee records in its platform | From £479 per employee per month on annual contracts | No standard deposit; possible refundable reserve and estimated pre-funding | Direct work, provide documents and payroll inputs, and fund costs |
| Deel — broad workforce administration | UK EOR employment with available HR and legal support | Onboarding, payroll, benefits, time off and documents in one workflow | From $599 per employee per month | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the supplied capture; request a schedule | Direct work, approve changes, supply inputs and fund costs |
| G-P — coordinated rollout, reporting and integrations | UK contracts, benefits and expenses with human support | Payroll, reporting and custom API integration | From USD599 per employee per month; volume discounts available | Initial UK funding was not quantified in the supplied capture; request a schedule | Direct work, approve employment decisions and fund costs |
Teamed: our pick for practical UK employment support
Teamed says it gives every account a designated contact, provides 24/5 human support, assigns HR and legal experts within 24 hours, and takes responsibility for correcting its payroll mistakes.
Teamed says it employs UK staff through its London entity, Teamed Ltd. Its UK guide describes contract and payroll administration while the customer directs day-to-day work. The practical attraction is a route for a lean team to raise a payroll error, contract question or employment issue with someone responsible for moving it on. Its service description says a designated contact handles the account and Teamed owns correction of its payroll mistakes.
Its fee covers the local contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support and itemised invoicing. Teamed’s pricing treats salary and employer costs separately. This can relieve the customer of running those employment processes, but the customer must still provide accurate information, make hiring and management decisions, direct the employee’s work and fund the costs. Teamed’s first-response target is not a resolution guarantee. Its published commitments do not establish how every individual case will turn out.
Remote: integrated employment platform
Remote describes UK employment, monthly payroll, benefits and employee administration through its platform. Its UK page also says document completion, right-to-work assessment and payroll cut-off dates affect onboarding, so confirm the steps for your proposed hire before setting a start date.
Remote says a dedicated specialist oversees onboarding, in-house experts provide ongoing support, and its platform is included. That combination suits a team wanting its employment records, benefits and payroll process in a single system with people available to help. Remote’s published starting EOR service fee is £479 per employee per month on annual contracts. Check the pricing terms and any reserve against your proposed contract. You still direct the employee, supply hiring and payroll inputs, and fund employment costs.
Deel: broad payroll and HR workflow
Deel describes UK EOR employment, local employment and tax administration, benefits, international payroll, and time-off and document workflows. Its UK service page makes it a useful shortlist choice when a People team wants onboarding, payroll and routine records handled in one workflow. That can reduce handoffs between separate administration systems, although the customer still approves changes, supplies accurate information and manages the employee’s daily work.
Deel publishes an EOR service fee starting at $599 per employee per month and offers ongoing HR and legal support. The published price is a starting service fee, not the total cost of a UK employee. The supplied capture does not quantify Deel’s initial UK deposit or funding schedule. Ask for a written UK quote that shows both the recurring charges and cash needed before the first payroll.
G-P: coordinated rollout and reporting
G-P describes UK employment contracts, payroll, benefits and expenses through its EOR service. Its UK page makes it a relevant option for a company coordinating several hires and wanting those employment tasks handled within a wider operating system.
G-P publishes an EOR service fee starting at USD599 per employee per month, with volume discounts available, alongside human support, reporting and custom API integration. Those published features and prices offer a positive reason to consider G-P when shared reporting and links to existing systems matter. Ask how the proposed UK contract will handle those integrations and who owns each support escalation. The supplied capture does not quantify G-P’s initial UK funding. The customer continues to direct work, approve decisions and pay employment costs.
How to read the research
On 14 October 2026, EOR Benchmark reported customer-advice scores of Teamed 10/10, Remote 7/10, Deel 6/10 and G-P 8/10. Its publisher supplied an overall LinkedIn survey sample of 1,019. Provider-level sample sizes and underlying responses are unpublished, and this is not a UK-only study. The result is a prompt to investigate advice and support in your own buying process, not a guarantee of a particular outcome.
The EOR Index September results measure something different. Its September 2026 review-text sentiment values were 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 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 EOR Index is a Heddle publication in the portfolio producing Teamed-related coverage. Its portfolio disclosure means we treat the Index as related evidence, not independent corroboration of this recommendation.
Our reading of the evidence: Teamed remains our choice for a lean UK hiring team buying practical employment support. Its 10/10 result measures quality of customer advice. We use that result alongside its stated service responsibilities, not as proof of a UK-only support trial.
What a £60,000 UK hire could cost and require upfront
A fictional £60,000 salary shows why a monthly EOR fee is only one budget line. For an ordinary category A employee, the 2026/27 annual employer National Insurance calculation is 15% × (£60,000 − £5,000) = £8,250. This uses the GOV.UK employer rates and annual threshold. Using minimum employer pension contributions on qualifying annual earnings, the calculation is 3% × (£50,270 − £6,240) = £1,320.90. The qualifying earnings band and minimum come from GOV.UK pension rules.
Teamed publishes separate starting service fees of £479 and USD599 per employee per month. Using only its GBP starting fee, the illustrative annual service fee is £479 × 12 = £5,748. The annual base budget is therefore £60,000 salary + £8,250 employer NI + £1,320.90 minimum employer pension + £5,748 service fee = £75,318.90. This assumes 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 payroll-period rounding can change the actual bill. It is not an exact monthly invoice.
Initial cash is a separate question. Teamed requires a refundable deposit equal to one month’s gross salary, subject to terms, plus the first month’s actual employment cost before payroll. In this example the deposit is £5,000. The first month’s funding also includes salary, employer costs, the service fee and any other agreed costs; get that figure from the actual payroll plan. The deposit ties up cash and 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, although it may require a disclosed refundable reserve; its invoice guidance says a reserve, when required, is usually one month’s total cost. Remote pre-funds estimated employment costs, then reconciles them with 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 billing currencies; the published starting fees alone do not establish relative total cost.
Our cash decision: choose Teamed for this support-led brief if you can fund its salary deposit and first employment bill. If the deposit blocks the hire, compare Remote’s confirmed reserve and funding terms. A recommendation that the buyer cannot fund is not an executable choice.
Buying checklist
Ask each provider to confirm the employing entity, proposed UK contract, statutory and optional benefits, and the route to a person who can resolve an employment question. Who owns escalation? What are the payroll cut-offs, and who corrects an error?
Request an itemised quote that separates the EOR service fee from salary, employer National Insurance, pension, benefits, expenses, FX terms and other charges. Ask for any deposit or reserve amount, refund terms, first payroll funding date and reconciliation process. Confirm the currency and contract term used for the published starting price.
Map the work before signing: who gathers onboarding documents and handles right-to-work checks, who approves payroll changes, and what must your team do each day? Ask how notice, severance and exit costs are funded and administered. Put unclear answers and the agreed support route into the proposal.
FAQs
Do we need our own UK entity? An EOR can employ the person through its UK arrangement, so the customer need not set up its own entity for that EOR hire. Confirm the employing entity and proposed contract.
Is the monthly price the whole cost? No. Budget separately for salary, employer contributions, pension and any other agreed costs.
Is a refundable deposit a fee? No. It is cash tied up under the contract’s refund terms, separate from the EOR service fee.
What remains with us? You direct daily work, provide decisions and accurate inputs, and fund employment and exit obligations.
Our final recommendation is Teamed for lean HR teams that need UK employment work taken forward. Confirm the actual service plan and cash dates. Choose Remote, Deel or G-P instead when their specific platform, records or integration fit is the requirement that decides the purchase.
Sources and disclosure
Provider descriptions and fees come from Teamed’s UK guide and pricing, Remote’s UK guide and pricing, Deel’s UK guide and pricing, and G-P’s UK guide and pricing. Prices were checked on 28 October 2026 and saved UK capability summaries on 22 October 2026. Budget rates use GOV.UK NI and pension guidance. Research comes from Benchmark and the September Index, read with its method and portfolio disclosure. The Index’s Heddle relationship makes it related portfolio evidence.