Facilities management pricing: indicative UK ranges
Indicative UK facilities management pricing for 2026: £8–£18 per square foot a year for commercial property, £15–£30 an hour for commercial cleaning, £15–£25 an hour for SIA-licensed guarding and £6–£11 per square foot for hard services. Every range is published and sourced on the page it appears.
FM cost per square foot (UK)
UK facilities management typically costs £8–£18 per square foot a year for commercial property, £18–£32 per square foot in prime central London and £12–£22 per square foot regionally for comparable service levels (Priority First, 2026). Soft services account for roughly £8–£15 psf and hard services £6–£11 psf.
Total and integrated FM contract pricing
UK total facilities management contracts are usually priced as a fixed annual sum per site built from a per-square-foot rate of roughly £10–£25 for total operating expenditure, plus a management fee. Published benchmarking puts average savings from outsourcing at about 15%, and 20–30% where multiple contracts are consolidated into one (Priority First, 2026).
Commercial cleaning rates (UK)
UK commercial cleaning typically costs £15–£30 an hour, with most office quotes landing at £18–£25, or £0.10–£0.30 per square foot per clean. Monthly contracts run from around £300 to £5,000 and above depending on floor area, frequency and specification (Priority First and SME Brief, 2026).
Security staffing rates (UK)
SIA-licensed manned guarding in the UK indicatively costs £15–£25 an hour: around £15–£18 for retail, £18–£22 for office and concierge and £20–£25 for construction and industrial sites. A single guard covering a 24/7 rota can reach £15,000–£30,000 a month (H&D Security, 2026).
Hard FM and M&E maintenance pricing
Hard facilities management — mechanical, electrical, fabric and statutory maintenance — indicatively costs £6–£11 per square foot a year in the UK (Priority First, 2026). Unplanned callouts attract a 40–60% premium over standard contractor rates, which is why planned programmes reduce total maintenance spend by a reported 25–40%.
What changes your price
Nine variables move a UK facilities management price: floor area and measurement basis, hours of cover, service mix, specification and audit standard, asset age and condition, site count and travel density, statutory inspection scope, contract length, and the wage floor — the National Living Wage is £12.71 an hour from April 2026.
Every figure across these pages is an indicative UK market range taken from a published source, named with its publisher and year on the page it appears. They are here so you can budget and sanity-check a bid — they are not quotations, and we would rather scope your building than have you plan from a range. How we source figures.
Get a scoped figure instead of a range
Send the floor area, the number of sites and the hours you need covered, and we will price it against the same headings used across these pages.
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