CSPO Contracts

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CSPO qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 686 837
Rank change year-on-year +96 +151 -114
Contract jobs citing CSPO 9 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.009% 0.019%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.069% 0.033% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile £423 £528 £450
25th Percentile £456 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -5.17% +22.11%
75th Percentile £506 £750 £586
90th Percentile £518 £780 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £430
% change year-on-year -13.64% +27.91% -4.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CSPO is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,955 15,058 19,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.92% 27.03% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 10,026 12,795
10th Percentile £310 £340 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 747 782
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.18 £21.29 £19.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +30.87%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £59.22
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.41 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.90% +50.00% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSPO.

Daily rate trend for CSPO in the UK

CSPO
Top 5 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 8 June 2024. 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 +97 7 £475 -13.64% 2
UK excluding London +40 4 £475 -13.64% 1
South East - 4 £475 -
Work from Home +111 3 £488 -35.00%
London +78 3 - - 1

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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) BigCommerce
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Unified Communications
2 1 (11.11%) 3G
2 1 (11.11%) 4G
2 1 (11.11%) 5G
2 1 (11.11%) Broadband
2 1 (11.11%) DSL
2 1 (11.11%) SMS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Balsamiq
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Product Owner
2 3 (33.33%) Agile Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Product Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Product Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
2 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) User Stories
3 5 (55.56%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (44.44%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (44.44%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 3 (33.33%) Sprint Review
5 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) Kanban
6 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CBAP
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) Intel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Sitecore