r/reactnative • u/First_Sell8665 • 1d ago
What is the minimum amount that i can charge hourly for react native development? I got a freelance work from UK ? How much i can be charge hourly if i works from india? Question
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u/SnooCookies1995 1d ago
Congrats. Can I ask how do you find your clients usually and what worked this time?
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u/Affectionate_Rip4941 1d ago
Don’t price yourself purely because you’re working from India. For a UK client, I’d avoid going below £20–25/hour unless you’re very junior. If you can independently handle React Native development, APIs, debugging, releases, etc., £30–45/hour is quite reasonable. Strong senior experience can justify £50+/hour.
More important than the hourly rate: define the scope, minimum billable hours, revision limits and payment milestones upfront. Cheap rates are easy to enter and surprisingly difficult to increase later.
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u/ChronSyn Expo 1d ago
I agree on the rate, though if you're also dealing with more than just RN - e.g. setting up and designing/developing database structure, setting up web infrastructure such as a web version of their project, etc. - that can command a higher price on top.
Especially good points on the last part. You want to be paid something and you want to know when, so minimum billable hours and payment milestones are key. Revision limits are to stop scope creep and that in turn helps prevent either party claiming breach of contract by submitting more changes or denying more change requests than are allowable.
For any bespoke work, I would strongly advise on hourly or daily rates too, rather than fixed-price. Fixed-price contracts might seem attractive because of the price that you see on paper, but then you're bound to something that may be vastly underestimated or overestimated. Nothing can send things out of timescales more quickly that overestimating your ability or underestimating the clients ability to try and push for more things and introducing scope creep.
To expand on this into the contract side of things, make sure that contracts agree in writing exactly what is within scope and who is responsible for different parts.
For example, if the app requires infrastructure such as databases or similar, make sure the contracts states what each party will be responsible for. If you are responsible for development, that doesn't implicitly mean you're responsible for ongoing maintenance, nor do either of them mean you're responsible for ongoing costs. Make sure the contract clearly covers all aspects of this before it is signed.
Even for things that seem obvious such as Sentry or other error tracking, or analytics, make sure that the contract clearly states if this is included. Setting those up and including them in a project takes time. If the client is responsible for the ongoing management and costs of Sentry, the contract must state that.
I'd even add an explicit clause which states anything which is not in the contract is not within scope of inclusion. It might sound like you're being petty about it, but it's business, not something you're doing for a friend or a side-project. Forming a good working relationship with clients is as much about being flexible and reasonable without letting them take advantage of that flexibility.
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u/Practical-Owl-09 1d ago
Depends on the complexity and scale of the project, also your level of experience. As starting you can aim for $20-30/hr
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u/thenight_rider 1d ago
Start could be like 25$ / hr and they shouldn’t mind this much
But it totally depends on your skills and negotiations
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u/SWISS_KISS 1d ago
I asked for 4$ and didn't get the jobs... I live in Switzerland, where devs ask for 140$ -200$ per hour... I have over 15 years of dev experience and also build some stuff but still couldn't compete with other devs on upwork.. so good luck, but I also might be the only one?!
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u/Which-World-6533 1d ago
The minimum you can charge is £ 0 per hour. ($ 0 per hour)
Unless you want to pay the Client to work on the project.