CSPO Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CSPO qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 563 552
Rank change year-on-year +59 -11 +172
Permanent jobs citing CSPO 2 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.025% 0.043%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.014% 0.065% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £44,250 - £47,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,238
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.53% -11.62%
75th Percentile £56,875 £47,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £58,750 - £73,000
UK median annual salary £71,250 £45,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +58.33% -33.33% +3.85%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,962 13,873 10,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.09% 38.67% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,083 5,273 6,893
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,965
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +7.21% +1.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% -

CSPO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CSPO job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CSPO
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSPO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSPO

CSPO
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSPO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CSPO in the UK excluding London

CSPO
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSPO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +26 1 £60,000 -
North of England +25 1 £45,000 -
West Midlands +24 1 £60,000 -
North East - 1 £45,000 -
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 1 (50.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) MoSCoW
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft