CSPO Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CSPO qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 352 404
Rank change year-on-year -32 +52 +95
Contract jobs citing CSPO 15 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.020% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.059% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £380 £360 £506
25th Percentile £398 £375 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -25.58% -
75th Percentile £533 £409 £566
90th Percentile £573 £415 £579
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -10.42%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,723 5,095 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.75% 34.50% 36.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,188 3,050 4,367
10th Percentile £255 £226 £250
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -6.05% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £640
90th Percentile £703 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 865 391 604
10th Percentile £16.12 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £52.05
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% -17.62% +15.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

CSPO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CSPO job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CSPO
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSPO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSPO

CSPO
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSPO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSPO in the UK excluding London

CSPO
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East - 6 £525 - 2
Midlands -36 4 - -
North of England -41 4 £405 +1.25%
East Midlands - 4 - -
Yorkshire -40 2 £465 +16.28%
North West - 2 £398 -
South West - 1 - - 1
CSPO
UK

CSPO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Marketing
3 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Product Owner
2 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Trainer
3 4 (26.67%) Trainer
4 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Product Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) VML
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (26.67%) e-Learning
2 4 (26.67%) Learning Management System
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Scrum
2 11 (73.33%) User Stories
3 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (53.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (53.33%) Product Backlog
5 7 (46.67%) Business Analysis
5 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
7 4 (26.67%) Business Process Mapping
7 4 (26.67%) Commercial Awareness
7 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
7 4 (26.67%) Requirements Workshops
7 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 4 (26.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CBAP
1 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) OCP
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO 20022
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft