Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CSPO qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 713 835
Rank change year-on-year +126 +122 -157
Contract jobs citing CSPO 11 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.010% 0.016%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.083% 0.037% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £423 £500 £436
25th Percentile £456 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £506 £700 £585
90th Percentile £518 £775 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £493
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.68% +3.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CSPO is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

CSPO
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CSPO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CSPO in the UK

CSPO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSPO.

Daily rate trend for CSPO in the UK

CSPO
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSPO within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +129 7 £500 -9.09% 4
Work from Home +134 5 £500 -33.33% 1
UK excluding London +68 4 £500 -9.09% 3
South East - 4 £500 - 2
London +100 3 - -

CSPO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) BigCommerce
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Unified Communications
2 1 (9.09%) 3G
2 1 (9.09%) 4G
2 1 (9.09%) 5G
2 1 (9.09%) Broadband
2 1 (9.09%) DSL
2 1 (9.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Balsamiq
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Retail
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Business Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Business Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Product Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Product Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Product Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Retail Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Product Owner
4 1 (9.09%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) PMI
2 1 (9.09%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
3 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (63.64%) User Stories
4 6 (54.55%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (27.27%) Customer-Centricity
6 3 (27.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (27.27%) Kanban
6 3 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (27.27%) Sprint Review
7 2 (18.18%) Accounts Receivable
7 2 (18.18%) Lean Thinking
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) CBAP
3 1 (9.09%) IIBA
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Citrix
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) Intel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore