CSPO Contracts

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CSPO qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 570 712
Rank change year-on-year +60 +142 +130
Contract jobs citing CSPO 10 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.028% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.090% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 6
10th Percentile £346 £430 £500
25th Percentile £400 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 - £700
90th Percentile £675 £515 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +11.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,993 13,316 16,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 30.57% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,686 8,190 10,861
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £533 £530
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 1,076 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSPO over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSPO in the UK

CSPO
Top 8 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 1 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
England +59 10 £500 +2.56% 10
London +41 6 £500 - 4
UK excluding London +62 4 £525 +7.69% 6
Work from Home +39 4 £561 +12.25% 5
North of England - 3 £650 - 4
North East - 2 £650 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 1
East of England - 1 £350 -

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 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Sketch
2 1 (10.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) BigCommerce
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) Miro
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Product Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Digital Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Transformation Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) PMI
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) User Stories
3 5 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (30.00%) Backlog Management
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Change Management
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (30.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CBAP
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Sitecore