Kusto Query Language Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Kusto Query Language skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 76 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 -21 -
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.39% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 0.92% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £535 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - £625
75th Percentile £604 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £547 £315 £625
% change year-on-year +73.65% -49.60% -

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Kusto Query Language falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 148 218 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.12% 31.59% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 183 86
10th Percentile £364 £313 £321
25th Percentile £425 £357 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £405 £419
Median % change year-on-year +29.01% -3.34% -16.20%
75th Percentile £588 £480 £538
90th Percentile £630 £537 £599
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £44.30 -
25th Percentile £14.87 £65.75 £82.50
Median hourly rate £47.94 £66.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.91% -21.76% +112.50%
75th Percentile £83.94 £86.00 £87.50
90th Percentile £85.18 £92.75 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £68.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +39.29% +6.11%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kusto Query Language relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Kusto Query Language job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Kusto Query Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Kusto Query Language

Kusto Query Language
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kusto Query Language within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 3 £569 -
Kusto Query Language
North West

Kusto Query Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) GCFA
1 3 (100.00%) GCIH
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) CASB
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk