The City of London is mostly an office round, not a flats round. Roughly nine in every ten of our City jobs are commercial, and the rest are the small Barbican and Smithfield residential pocket along the EC1A and EC2Y edges.
We are hiring cleaners across the City of London at £14.80 an hour, paid weekly, on early-morning office rounds and a handful of Barbican flats.
Most of the work is early. Office cleans inside the Square Mile happen before the desks fill, which on a normal weekday means 5am to 8am, with a smaller after-hours window from about 6.30pm. The buildings are around Leadenhall, Bishopsgate, Cannon Street and the streets off Cheapside, plus a steady cluster behind Bank junction. Contracts come through small managing-agent leads rather than the big FM names, so the kit is yours when you walk in.
The pay, plainly
£14.80 per hour, which is the London Living Wage rate for 2025-26. Bank transfer every Friday for the previous week. Self-employed or PAYE, we are easy either way. Cleaning Express, the better-known competitor in the City, lists £13.85 on their public site as a Living Wage employer; we sit at the higher 2025-26 number.
Working around the City quirks
Bank junction is closed to general traffic between 7am and 7pm on weekdays, which is fine for the early shift because you will be in and out before the restriction bites, but it catches a driver out the first time. Loading is allowed on the approaches. From 28 July 2025 black cabs got eastbound access through the junction again on an experimental order, so a taxi is sometimes faster than a private car if you are running late.
Most of our cleaners do not drive into the City. Liverpool Street counted 98 million entries and exits to March 2025, and the Elizabeth, Central and Circle lines empty straight into our office sites. Cannon Street and Moorgate cover the south and north edges; Bank, St Paul’s and Blackfriars do the rest. If you live on the Elizabeth line corridor, the commute is easy.
Deliveries-window thinking matters even on a domestic clean. Several Barbican blocks restrict trade vehicles to specific morning windows, and the Smithfield-area buildings around Charterhouse Square and Long Lane are the same. We give you a written note for each address before your first visit. There is no guessing.
The Barbican and Smithfield residential bit
Two letting names you will see on signs around here are Scott City Residential and AW Childs in Farringdon. We pick up two or three end-of-tenancy slots a month from agents around the Barbican Centre, plus a few weekly maintenance cleans inside Speed House and Willoughby House on the podium. The flats are Grade II listed and the cleaning rules are mildly fussy. We will brief you.
The Smithfield Market caveat
Smithfield meat market is winding down at its current site by 2028, with traders moving to the Royal Docks and the old halls becoming the new London Museum. None of that affects what we are hiring for now, but the geography of the EC1A side will be shifting in 2027 and we will adjust the rota with it.
What we want
Real cleaning experience. Office or domestic both fine, but not training-from-zero this round. You’ll keep time, because a 5.30am office slot does not forgive a late start.
Right-to-work paperwork sorted before your first shift, ID and a recent utility bill. We do that bit properly.
We don’t want a CV. Or a covering letter. Or a long online form.
This role staffs our domestic cleaning in City-Of-London, end of tenancy cleaning, carpet cleaning and oven cleaning rounds, so there is steady local work all year.
How to apply
Message the number on this page with your name, the postcode you live in, and one line on where you have cleaned before. If office cleaning is your usual line of work, say so. We reply inside 48 hours. If we want to meet you, we meet on a weekday morning near the office, and you bring ID plus a recent utility bill.
If the City does not suit your hours, our Islington rounds along Upper Street run later in the day and might fit better.
Hiring organisation: Monster Cleaning, trading since 2014. Posted 7 May 2026.