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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 472 587
Rank change year-on-year +47 +115 +155
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 78 61 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.18% 0.046%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.57% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 45 8
10th Percentile £374 £425 £241
25th Percentile £433 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -5.38% -3.13%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £627
90th Percentile £730 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £408
% change year-on-year -9.05% +34.97% -29.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 £68.75 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% - -
75th Percentile £63.25 £76.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -24.83% - -

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 9,108 10,609 15,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.79% 31.64% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,280 7,647 11,026
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £768 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 364 396
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.11 £28.55
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.19 £47.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.42 £78.53 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +10.09%

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 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in England

Kusto Query Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kusto Query Language in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 August 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 +33 46 £475 -12.44% 24
Midlands -4 9 - - 4
South East +21 8 £455 -13.33% 13
West Midlands -4 7 - - 2
North of England -12 7 £315 -30.00% 8
North West -6 6 £315 -30.00% 5
South West +27 5 £550 - 2
East of England - 2 £650 - 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -7 1 - - 3
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:

Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (7.69%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 49 (62.82%) Azure
2 38 (48.72%) Azure Sentinel
3 13 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (12.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (12.82%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (11.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (10.26%) Azure AKS
8 7 (8.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (7.69%) AWS
9 6 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (7.69%) Collibra
9 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
10 4 (5.13%) GCP
10 4 (5.13%) Serverless
11 3 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.85%) GitHub
11 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.38%) Firewall
2 9 (11.54%) DNS
2 9 (11.54%) Network Security
3 8 (10.26%) HTTP
3 8 (10.26%) SMTP
3 8 (10.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.85%) FTP
4 3 (3.85%) SSL
5 2 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (7.69%) Delta Lake
1 6 (7.69%) GIS
1 6 (7.69%) Power BI
2 5 (6.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.28%) Big Data
General
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Finance
3 5 (6.41%) Banking
4 4 (5.13%) Legal
4 4 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Electronics
6 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.28%) Marketing
6 1 (1.28%) Military
6 1 (1.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (37.18%) Analyst
2 20 (25.64%) Security Engineer
3 16 (20.51%) SOC Analyst
4 15 (19.23%) Security Analyst
5 9 (11.54%) SIEM Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 7 (8.97%) SOC Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Monitoring Analyst
9 4 (5.13%) Site Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Architect
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Consultant
10 3 (3.85%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.85%) Data Migration Specialist
10 3 (3.85%) Migration Specialist
10 3 (3.85%) Operations Analyst
10 3 (3.85%) Security Operations Analyst
10 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) JSON
2 8 (10.26%) .NET
2 8 (10.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (7.69%) Kafka
4 4 (5.13%) YAML
5 2 (2.56%) OAuth
6 1 (1.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 7 (8.97%) Onboarding
5 6 (7.69%) IoT
5 6 (7.69%) SCADA
6 5 (6.41%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.56%) Operational Technology
9 2 (2.56%) PKI
9 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.28%) FMCG
10 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.28%) STIX
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.36%) Windows
2 8 (10.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.97%) Incident Response
1 46 (58.97%) SIEM
2 40 (51.28%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (33.33%) Analytics
4 25 (32.05%) Security Operations
5 23 (29.49%) Threat Intelligence
6 21 (26.92%) SOAR
7 19 (24.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 19 (24.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 18 (23.08%) Threat Detection
9 13 (16.67%) DevOps
10 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (15.38%) ITSM
10 12 (15.38%) Security Architecture
10 12 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
11 11 (14.10%) Use Case
12 10 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (12.82%) Vulnerability Management
13 9 (11.54%) Observability
13 9 (11.54%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.90%) Python
2 23 (29.49%) PowerShell
3 11 (14.10%) Bicep
4 6 (7.69%) Bash
4 6 (7.69%) SQL
5 5 (6.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Degree
2 14 (17.95%) SC Cleared
2 14 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 12 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 10 (12.82%) GCIH
5 9 (11.54%) CISSP
6 6 (7.69%) CEH
6 6 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (5.13%) CCNA
8 4 (5.13%) CCSP
8 4 (5.13%) GCIA
8 4 (5.13%) OSCP
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.56%) CASP
9 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.56%) GCFA
9 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (12.82%) NIST
2 9 (11.54%) GDPR
3 5 (6.41%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (2.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.56%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.56%) SLA
5 2 (2.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Snort
2 1 (1.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.26%) Grafana
3 5 (6.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.13%) CSIRT
5 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.85%) SCCM
5 3 (3.85%) Terraform
6 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.28%) logstash
6 1 (1.28%) Nessus
6 1 (1.28%) Nexpose
6 1 (1.28%) Suricata
Vendors
1 61 (78.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (8.97%) Databricks
3 7 (8.97%) SAP
4 6 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 6 (7.69%) Google
4 6 (7.69%) Informatica
4 6 (7.69%) Qualys
4 6 (7.69%) Splunk
5 5 (6.41%) Carbon Black
5 5 (6.41%) Citrix
5 5 (6.41%) Forcepoint
5 5 (6.41%) Oracle
5 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.13%) ArcSight
7 3 (3.85%) Darktrace
8 2 (2.56%) LogRhythm
8 2 (2.56%) McAfee
8 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.28%) Cisco