CSPO Contract Job Trends

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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 551 646
Rank change year-on-year 0 +95 +186
Contract jobs citing CSPO 17 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.021% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.071% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 4
10th Percentile £303 - £499
25th Percentile £330 £475 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -5.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £493 £525 £583
90th Percentile £615 £533 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £488 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% -15.22% -

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 10,329 11,269 13,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.35% 29.26% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,453 6,946 8,930
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 654 722
10th Percentile £17.91 £17.00 £16.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% -9.22% +21.18%
75th Percentile £45.40 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% - +16.67%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CSPO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSPO over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSPO in the UK

CSPO
Top 8 Contract Job 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 18 September 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 +26 16 £398 -20.50% 7
London +26 8 £328 -37.62% 4
UK excluding London -1 8 £413 -15.38% 3
Work from Home +31 5 £525 +2.44% 2
South East +22 4 £433 -11.28%
North of England - 4 £413 - 1
North West - 3 £405 - 1
North East - 1 £650 -

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 9 (52.94%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.88%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Product Owner
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Product Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) PMI
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 15 (88.24%) Scrum
3 13 (76.47%) Product Backlog
4 12 (70.59%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 12 (70.59%) User Stories
5 10 (58.82%) Roadmaps
5 10 (58.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (52.94%) Backlog Management
7 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (41.18%) Product Roadmap
8 6 (35.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (35.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (29.41%) Sprint Review
10 4 (23.53%) Business Strategy
10 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (23.53%) Kanban
10 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
11 3 (17.65%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CBAP
2 1 (5.88%) OCP
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) ISO 20022
2 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.88%) EMIR
3 1 (5.88%) MiFID
3 1 (5.88%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) IBM
2 2 (11.76%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow