How much does office cleaning cost in the UK

Standard commercial office cleaning in the UK runs from roughly £15 to £30 an hour in 2026, with most contracts landing between £18 and £25. London and the South East sit 10 to 20 percent above regional cities. Specialist work prices separately: a one-off deep clean typically runs £30 to £45 an hour, and carpet or upholstery work is usually quoted per job.

Hourly rates

The hourly rate is the headline number, but it is not the price. A two-hour visit at £20 costs the same as a one-hour visit at £40, and the two-hour visit almost always leaves a better office. What matters is the rate multiplied by the hours your specification actually needs, so treat any quote that names a rate without naming the hours as half a quote.

Be careful with rates that undercut the band by a distance. Below roughly £15 an hour it is difficult to pay the National Living Wage, insure the work and supervise it properly, so something in that list is usually missing. The cheapest quote on the table is often the most expensive one to recover from.

What moves the price

Contract pricing

Regular contracts are usually quoted as a fixed monthly price built from the visit schedule. As a guide, a small office on one or two visits a week starts from roughly £150 to £300 a month, a mid-size office on several visits a week runs into the high hundreds, and a large office cleaned daily runs from four figures. Some contractors price per square foot instead, typically 10p to 30p per clean, which amounts to the same arithmetic from a different direction.

Specify before you compare

Two quotes are only comparable if they price the same specification, so write the spec first: which areas, which tasks at which frequency, who supplies consumables, what hours, and how the standard is checked. Ask each contractor to price that document rather than their own version of it. The spec does not need to be long. One page is enough to stop the cheapest quote winning on a job it has quietly shrunk.