Kusto Query Language Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Kusto Query Language skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 113 142
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 -
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 6 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 0.40% 0.036%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 1.85% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile £388 £489 -
25th Percentile £460 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 416 486 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.46% 21.82% 22.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 332 456
10th Percentile £340 £363 £325
25th Percentile £402 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - -
75th Percentile £550 £619 £619
90th Percentile £620 £660 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 14
10th Percentile £22.00 £34.80 £32.30
25th Percentile £26.88 £56.53 £32.31
Median hourly rate £36.00 £63.93 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -43.69% +32.09% -28.15%
75th Percentile £45.38 £76.84 £55.48
90th Percentile £50.40 £88.13 £63.34
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% +1.93%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Kusto Query Language in the Thames Valley

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in the Thames Valley

Kusto Query Language
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Berkshire +15 5 £500 -4.31% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £550 - 3
Kusto Query Language
South East

Kusto Query Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Event Correlation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) SOAR
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) GCFA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
2 1 (16.67%) FireEye
2 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium