For UK businesses hiring in India
We find, vet and legally employ skilled people in India for UK companies. You get a full-time team member for a fraction of a UK salary. We handle the contracts, payroll and compliance.
From £199 per person, per month. Recruitment included — no placement fee.
Savings calculator
Pick the role, check the UK salary against what you would really pay, and see the difference side by side. No form, no email required.
Hiring in the UK
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— a month
The same role, hired in India through JuteWise
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— a month
You save
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a year — — less than hiring in the UK, or — back in your budget every month.
UK figures use published 2025/26 tax year employer National Insurance and auto-enrolment pension rates. Our fee is the published rate card. Indian salary figures are indicative estimates for a full-time hire, not a quote — tell us the role and we will come back with an exact monthly cost.
We source and vet candidates in India against your role — skills, English, and the overlap hours you need.
Our India employment partner becomes their legal employer. Contracts, tax and statutory benefits, handled properly. Day to day, they work for you.
Payroll runs on time, in rupees. Someone local handles their HR questions. That is why people stay.
A good administrator or bookkeeper in the UK costs £26,000–£30,000 before you add employer National Insurance and pension. For a lot of small businesses that is the difference between hiring and going without — so the work piles onto whoever is already there.
India has a deep pool of English-speaking admin, finance, marketing and support professionals, many already working UK hours for UK clients. We find them, employ them compliantly through our India partner, and hand you a full-time team member — for roughly a third of what the role costs here.
Why India
India graduates millions of students a year, a large share in engineering, technology and commerce. In most roles the constraint on your hire is how well you write the brief, not the supply of candidates.
India has one of the largest English-speaking populations in the world, and English is the medium of instruction across its professional education. We still screen spoken English on video before anyone reaches your shortlist.
India is 4.5 hours ahead in summer and 5.5 in winter, so a normal Indian working day already overlaps most of yours — and your overnight queue is cleared before your UK team logs on. Nobody is working nights.
India has been delivering services to UK and US businesses since the 1990s. Western hours, Western tooling and Western standards are normal there, not an adjustment you have to fund.
One monthly invoice
Their salary and our fee, in pounds, on one invoice. No Indian entity, no rupee bank account, no surprises.
Properly employed, not a loophole
A real Indian employment contract with statutory benefits — not a contractor arrangement that unravels when someone looks at it.
Working your hours
India is 4.5–5.5 hours ahead of the UK. We hire for the overlap you need, so your day is covered.
Roles we place
If the job is done on a laptop and a video call, it can be done well from India. Pick the function you are hiring into.
Developers, engineers and QA — India’s deepest talent pool by a distance. 13 roles.
Hire technologyBookkeepers, accountants and analysts, many already working to UK standards. 4 roles.
Hire finance & accountingContent, SEO, paid media, social and design — executed weekly, not quarterly. 6 roles.
Hire marketing & creativeVirtual assistants, administrators, project managers and operations support. 5 roles.
Hire business operationsSupport advisors, sales development and recruiters, working your hours. 3 roles.
Hire sales & customer serviceBiggest savings
Savings are against the fully loaded cost of the same hire in the UK — salary plus employer National Insurance plus the pension you have to auto-enrol them into.
Save £3,899 a month
vs. £5,798 a month in the UK
Hire AI and machine learning engineersSave £3,619 a month
vs. £5,318 a month in the UK
Hire DevOps engineersSave £3,432 a month
vs. £5,031 a month in the UK
Hire data engineersSave £3,340 a month
vs. £4,839 a month in the UK
Hire scrum mastersSave £3,193 a month
vs. £4,642 a month in the UK
Hire full-stack developersSave £3,145 a month
vs. £4,544 a month in the UK
Hire Python developersHow it works
A 15-minute call. What the job involves, what good looks like, which hours you need covered.
We source and screen candidates in India, test the skills that matter, and send you three to five worth interviewing.
You meet them yourself, over video, and make the call. It is your team — you pick the person.
Contract, payroll, tax and benefits happen on our side. From their first morning, they report to you.
| Criterion | JuteWise | A UK hire | A freelancer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | Around a third of a UK hire, all in | Full UK salary plus NI and pension | Varies, often hourly |
| Commitment | Full-time, one team, your hours | Full-time | Split across several clients |
| Who employs them | Our India partner, compliantly | You | Nobody — self-employed |
| Misclassification risk | None — they are employed | None | Yours to manage |
| Cover when they leave | Replacement search included | You recruit again, and pay again | You start over |
| Recruitment fee | None — included in the monthly fee | 15–20% of first-year salary | None |
FAQ
Yes. Your hire is employed in India by our India-based employment partner, on a compliant local contract with the statutory benefits Indian law requires — provident fund, paid leave, the lot. You are not employing anyone abroad and you do not need an Indian entity. You direct their work; we carry the employment obligations.
Remote-friendly office roles: administrative support, customer service, bookkeeping and accounts, digital marketing, virtual assistance, data and operations support, and sales support. If the job can be done well over a laptop and a video call, it is a candidate.
You pay one monthly invoice: your hire’s salary and employment costs, plus a transparent management fee. For most roles the all-in cost lands at roughly a third of the equivalent UK hire once you count employer National Insurance and pension. The calculator on this page shows the arithmetic.
We replace them. Every placement carries a 6-week probation period, and if it is not right within that window we restart the search at no additional fee. Beyond probation, we handle the exit properly under Indian employment law and begin a replacement search.
A recruitment agency finds you a person and leaves. Deel and Remote give you employment infrastructure in a hundred countries but you find the person yourself. We do both, in one country only — we recruit the candidate and employ them for you, and because we only do the UK–India route we actually know the market.
India is 4.5 hours ahead of the UK in summer and 5.5 in winter, so a normal Indian working day overlaps most of yours. We hire for the overlap you specify. English fluency is screened on video before anyone reaches your shortlist — spoken, not just written.
Aditya MukherjeeFounder
Aditya Mukherjee started JuteWise after years as a Business Manager working closely with UK founders, watching rising employee costs push otherwise solid businesses toward closure.
Being Indian himself, he saw the other side of that problem — a deep, skilled talent pool priced far below its worth. He is based in Liverpool, knows both markets firsthand, and takes the first call personally.
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On top of your hire’s salary and their Indian statutory employment costs. Recruitment is included — there is no placement fee and no percentage of first-year salary.
1–4 hires
£199per person / month
Your first hire, or a small team
5–20 hires
£149per person / month
Building out a function
20+ hires
Customquoted per engagement
Standing up a whole offshore team
No setup cost, no markup hidden inside statutory contributions, and no charge to run payroll. The fee falls automatically as your team grows.
Identical service at every tier. Whether you hire one person or a hundred, you get the same dedicated recruiter, the same named support manager and the same onboarding.
Tell us the role. We will come back with what it costs, what the shortlist looks like, and how quickly they could start.