Kusto Query Language Contracts in England

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kusto Query Language skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kusto Query Language 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 446 502 630
Rank change year-on-year +56 +128 +104
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 39 40 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.11% 0.046%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 0.37% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 13
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £406 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -0.43% -2.08%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £688
90th Percentile £587 £644 -
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £569
% change year-on-year -10.26% +2.86% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 - -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kusto Query Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kusto Query Language in England

Kusto Query Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kusto Query Language in England.

Daily rate trend for Kusto Query Language in England

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in England

Kusto Query Language
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
London +49 23 £433 -25.94% 17
South East +49 6 £525 -8.70% 10
South West +45 3 £550 - 5
North of England +13 3 £525 +16.67% 2
Midlands +18 2 £525 -14.98% 9
North West +10 2 £525 +16.67% 2
West Midlands +10 2 £525 -14.98% 9
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Kusto Query Language
UK

Kusto Query Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) Azure Sentinel
3 13 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (28.21%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Azure AKS
6 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (15.38%) AWS
8 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 3 (7.69%) SaaS
10 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (5.13%) GCP
10 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (2.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) DNS
2 6 (15.38%) HTTP
2 6 (15.38%) SMTP
2 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.69%) Firewall
3 3 (7.69%) FTP
3 3 (7.69%) SSL
4 2 (5.13%) Network Security
5 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.56%) Wireless
5 1 (2.56%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) Parquet
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Electronics
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Analyst
2 11 (28.21%) Security Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Incident Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Incident Responder
3 6 (15.38%) Operations Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Security Incident Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Security Operations Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Security Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) SOC Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) JSON
2 8 (20.51%) .NET
2 8 (20.51%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (7.69%) YAML
4 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (5.13%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (5.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (5.13%) Insider Threat
4 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.13%) Shadow IT
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Incident Response
2 22 (56.41%) SIEM
3 20 (51.28%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (38.46%) Security Operations
5 13 (33.33%) Analytics
6 12 (30.77%) DevOps
6 12 (30.77%) Threat Detection
7 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (20.51%) Log Analytics
8 8 (20.51%) Observability
8 8 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (20.51%) SOAR
8 8 (20.51%) Threat Intelligence
9 7 (17.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
9 7 (17.95%) Microservices
10 6 (15.38%) Cloud Security
10 6 (15.38%) ITSM
10 6 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 6 (15.38%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 10 (25.64%) Bicep
3 9 (23.08%) Python
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (12.82%) Degree
5 3 (7.69%) GCIH
6 2 (5.13%) CCNA
6 2 (5.13%) CCSP
6 2 (5.13%) CEH
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.13%) CISSP
6 2 (5.13%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (5.13%) OSCP
7 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.56%) GCFA
7 1 (2.56%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.82%) NIST
2 4 (10.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) GRC
3 2 (5.13%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.13%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
1 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Grafana
3 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.26%) Terraform
5 2 (5.13%) CSIRT
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.13%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 26 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.26%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (7.69%) Google
5 2 (5.13%) ArcSight
5 2 (5.13%) McAfee
6 1 (2.56%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.56%) Databricks
6 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.56%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.56%) Okta
6 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk