Kusto Query Language Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 371 431
Rank change year-on-year +55 +60 +68
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 26 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.099% 0.057%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 0.42% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 7
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £509 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £556 £635 £616
90th Percentile £581 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £581
% change year-on-year -10.26% +0.65% -3.13%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,690 4,807 6,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 23.73% 28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,456 3,244 4,600
10th Percentile £322 £316 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £566 £588 £590
90th Percentile £638 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £518 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 414 329
10th Percentile £27.88 £37.74 £23.84
25th Percentile £44.76 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +24.13%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kusto Query Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kusto Query Language in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +57 9 £513 -10.87% 97
Midlands +24 8 £525 -17.32% 61
West Midlands +19 8 £525 -17.32% 32
South West +35 3 £550 - 40
North of England +9 3 £525 +16.67% 67
North West +2 2 £525 +16.67% 29
Scotland - 2 £505 - 18
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 30
East of England - 1 £650 - 51
Kusto Query Language
UK

Kusto Query Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (23.08%) Collibra
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) GitHub
6 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.69%) AWS
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (23.08%) Delta Lake
1 6 (23.08%) GIS
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.54%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Analyst
2 12 (46.15%) Security Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Incident Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Incident Responder
3 6 (23.08%) Operations Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Security Incident Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Security Operations Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Data Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) SIEM Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) IoT
1 6 (23.08%) SCADA
1 6 (23.08%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (19.23%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (11.54%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Cybersecurity
1 17 (65.38%) SIEM
2 14 (53.85%) Incident Response
3 10 (38.46%) Security Operations
4 8 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 8 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Analytics
5 7 (26.92%) Incident Management
5 7 (26.92%) Threat Detection
6 6 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (23.08%) Data Governance
6 6 (23.08%) Threat Analysis
7 5 (19.23%) Data Mapping
7 5 (19.23%) ETL
7 5 (19.23%) Event Correlation
7 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
7 5 (19.23%) OSINT
8 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
8 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 4 (15.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (15.38%) Degree
5 3 (11.54%) CISSP
5 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
5 3 (11.54%) GCIH
6 2 (7.69%) CASP
6 2 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (3.85%) GCFA
7 1 (3.85%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
2 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
3 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (7.69%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Databricks
2 6 (23.08%) Informatica
2 6 (23.08%) SAP
3 5 (19.23%) ArcSight
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk