Kusto Query Language Contract Job Trends in London

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Kusto Query Language skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 302 355
Rank change year-on-year -119 +53 +67
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 41 59 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.44% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 1.14% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 23
10th Percentile £430 £417 £500
25th Percentile £450 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +129.79%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £582
90th Percentile £750 £795 £585
England median daily rate £550 £550 £548
% change year-on-year - +0.46% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £46.45 -
25th Percentile - £47.50 £68.75
Median hourly rate - £56.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.76% -
75th Percentile - £63.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - £63.15 -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £56.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -8.93% -22.76% -

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,496 5,160 6,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.68% 38.52% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,411 3,502 4,407
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £668 £676 £700
90th Percentile £773 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 68 45
10th Percentile £26.51 £25.58 £27.79
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.06 £38.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £44.20 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.92% -10.71% -13.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £71.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +4.00%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Kusto Query Language job vacancy trend in London

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language in London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in London

Kusto Query Language
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kusto Query Language.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kusto Query Language

Kusto Query Language
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London -20 4 £563 -22.95% 5
Kusto Query Language
England

Kusto Query Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (2.44%) Apache
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.44%) nginx
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (68.29%) Azure
2 20 (48.78%) Entra ID
3 13 (31.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 13 (31.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Purview
5 9 (21.95%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (17.07%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (14.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (12.20%) AWS
8 5 (12.20%) Azure AKS
8 5 (12.20%) GitHub
8 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
9 4 (9.76%) Azure AI
9 4 (9.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) DHCP
4 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) JMeter
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) Newman
3 1 (2.44%) Postman
General
1 9 (21.95%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Local Government
5 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Analyst
2 9 (21.95%) Security Analyst
3 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Security Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Security Operations Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Security Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (4.88%) QA Tester
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Tester
7 2 (4.88%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (4.88%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.44%) Backbone.js
4 1 (2.44%) FIDO
4 1 (2.44%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (2.44%) LDAP
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.44%) OpenID
4 1 (2.44%) Playwright
4 1 (2.44%) PySpark
4 1 (2.44%) pytest
4 1 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.44%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.44%) SPFx
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (12.20%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (12.20%) Security Posture
3 4 (9.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.88%) BYOD
5 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.44%) Linked Data
6 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.44%) NVMe
6 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.44%) Replication
6 1 (2.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Linux
3 3 (7.32%) macOS
4 2 (4.88%) Android
4 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (46.34%) Incident Response
3 16 (39.02%) Security Operations
3 16 (39.02%) SIEM
4 15 (36.59%) Analytics
5 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
5 14 (34.15%) DevOps
6 13 (31.71%) SOAR
6 13 (31.71%) Threat Detection
7 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.83%) Security Monitoring
7 11 (26.83%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (21.95%) Cloud Security
9 8 (19.51%) Agile
9 8 (19.51%) AI
10 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (17.07%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 7 (17.07%) RBAC
10 7 (17.07%) Runbook
10 7 (17.07%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 13 (31.71%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) Bicep
4 3 (7.32%) Bash
4 3 (7.32%) C#
4 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.88%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.44%) C
6 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) CISSP
1 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
1 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.32%) GCIA
3 3 (7.32%) GCIH
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.88%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.88%) GIAC
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CISM
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) CRISC
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.44%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) NIST
2 7 (17.07%) Data Quality
3 6 (14.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (9.76%) GDPR
5 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
5 3 (7.32%) NCSC
6 2 (4.88%) NIST 800
6 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
6 2 (4.88%) QA
7 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (2.44%) GLBA
7 1 (2.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (85.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Splunk
3 3 (7.32%) OneTrust
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.88%) Foundry
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) Okta
5 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat