CSPO Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for CSPO qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CSPO 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 - -
75th Percentile £401 - -
90th Percentile £404 - -
North West median daily rate £398 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

CSPO falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 104 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 40.09% 23.06% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 61 62
10th Percentile £272 £325 £86
25th Percentile £355 £356 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £635 £580 £549
90th Percentile £716 £645 £635
North West median daily rate £492 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 5
10th Percentile - £24.06 £20.55
25th Percentile £15.50 £24.14 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £55.10 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year -65.51% +61.66% +46.83%
75th Percentile £52.00 £86.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £82.40 - £63.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +85.42%

CSPO
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSPO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

CSPO job vacancy trend in Cheshire

CSPO
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSPO within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £398 -
CSPO
North West

CSPO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Product Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Business Case
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Feasibility Study
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft