Kusto Query Language Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Kusto Query Language skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 116 132
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 +79
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 6 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.27% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £525 -
25th Percentile £613 £550 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £635 £616
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +3.04% +23.25%
75th Percentile £638 - £626
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £531 £540 £425
% change year-on-year -1.62% +27.06% -20.93%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 754 553 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.22% 23.95% 22.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 353 428
10th Percentile £358 £333 £312
25th Percentile £413 £381 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £562 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £637 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £19.83 £16.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £27.91 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.37 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.97% +12.47% -3.38%
75th Percentile - £30.31 £51.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £50.75 £54.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Kusto Query Language job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Kusto Query Language
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
West Midlands -31 6 £625 -1.57%
Kusto Query Language
England

Kusto Query Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Architect
1 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk