CSPO Contracts 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 380 446
Rank change year-on-year +45 +66 +56
Contract jobs citing CSPO 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.025% 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.067% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £370 £423 -
25th Percentile £400 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.36% +11.68%
75th Percentile £675 £500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £561 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +12.25% -9.09% -4.35%

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 4,669 7,433 7,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.94% 36.58% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,841 4,313 5,033
10th Percentile £208 £270 £286
25th Percentile £380 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +1.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £675 £725 £705
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 921 605
10th Percentile £17.67 £13.50 £13.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.07 £40.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -19.35% +42.86%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £79.61 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.25 £40.00 £54.28
% change year-on-year -6.88% -26.31% +23.50%

CSPO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CSPO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CSPO in the UK excluding London

CSPO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSPO in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CSPO in the UK excluding London

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 18 May 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 18 May 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
North of England - 4 £650 - 6
North East - 3 £650 - 1
East of England - 1 £350 -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 1
CSPO
UK

CSPO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft