Kusto Query Language Contract Job Trends

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 461 499
Rank change year-on-year -113 +38 +102
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 108 99 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.92% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 52 48
10th Percentile £448 £376 £500
25th Percentile £500 £461 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £594
90th Percentile £690 £723 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £46.45 -
25th Percentile - £47.50 £68.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £56.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.76% +3.57%
75th Percentile - £63.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - £63.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,253 10,783 12,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.08% 32.86% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,255 7,085 7,960
10th Percentile £363 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £648
90th Percentile £725 £730 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 301 330
10th Percentile £23.67 £29.00 £26.22
25th Percentile £46.00 £41.25 £46.05
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.98 £75.00 £77.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kusto Query Language job vacancy trend in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Kusto Query Language
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England -118 93 £550 - 73
UK excluding London -92 52 £550 +7.32% 43
London -106 40 £563 +2.27% 32
Work from Home -64 31 £500 -11.11% 42
South East -50 15 £650 +42.86% 19
North of England -67 13 £525 +16.67% 8
East of England -16 11 £550 -15.38% 5
Midlands -40 11 £500 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire -29 8 £518 +15.00% 3
West Midlands -47 7 £500 -20.00% 2
North West -49 5 £547 +73.65% 4
East Midlands -6 4 £500 - 3
South West -37 2 £531 -5.56% 1

Kusto Query Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (2.78%) Apache
1 3 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.78%) nginx
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (56.48%) Azure
2 35 (32.41%) Azure Sentinel
3 29 (26.85%) Azure Logic Apps
4 23 (21.30%) Entra ID
5 21 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (12.96%) AWS
9 12 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (11.11%) GitHub
10 9 (8.33%) Azure AKS
11 8 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (5.56%) Power Platform
12 6 (5.56%) SaaS
12 6 (5.56%) Serverless
13 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.63%) Azure Functions
13 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.33%) Firewall
2 7 (6.48%) Network Security
3 5 (4.63%) DNS
4 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.85%) Broadband
5 2 (1.85%) HTTP
5 2 (1.85%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.93%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.56%) Power BI
2 4 (3.70%) Big Data
2 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.70%) Delta Lake
2 4 (3.70%) InfluxDB
3 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.93%) Metadata
5 1 (0.93%) Parquet
5 1 (0.93%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) GitLab
2 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.70%) Git
4 2 (1.85%) JMeter
5 1 (0.93%) Newman
5 1 (0.93%) Postman
General
1 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.04%) Finance
4 7 (6.48%) Banking
5 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.78%) Legal
7 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Local Government
8 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (23.15%) Analyst
2 17 (15.74%) SIEM Engineer
3 13 (12.04%) Consultant
3 13 (12.04%) SOC Analyst
4 12 (11.11%) Lead
4 12 (11.11%) Senior
5 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Consultant
5 10 (9.26%) Security Analyst
5 10 (9.26%) Security Consultant
6 7 (6.48%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Operations Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Splunk Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Security Operations Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) SOC Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 3 (2.78%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.67%) Terraform
2 7 (6.48%) Kafka
3 5 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.70%) PySpark
5 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.85%) .NET
6 2 (1.85%) JSON
6 2 (1.85%) REST
6 2 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.93%) Backbone.js
7 1 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.93%) LDAP
7 1 (0.93%) OAuth
7 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.93%) OpenID
7 1 (0.93%) Playwright
7 1 (0.93%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.93%) pytest
7 1 (0.93%) SAML
7 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.44%) Onboarding
2 12 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 10 (9.26%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.78%) Insider Threat
7 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.85%) BYOD
8 2 (1.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.85%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.85%) Social Media
9 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.93%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (9.26%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.85%) Android
4 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.93%) SIEM
2 48 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 44 (40.74%) Threat Detection
4 40 (37.04%) Incident Response
4 40 (37.04%) Use Case
5 39 (36.11%) CI/CD
5 39 (36.11%) SOAR
6 33 (30.56%) Analytics
7 28 (25.93%) DevOps
8 27 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
9 26 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (20.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 18 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (15.74%) Threat Intelligence
13 16 (14.81%) Data Modelling
13 16 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (13.89%) Cloud Security
15 14 (12.96%) AI
15 14 (12.96%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.70%) Python
2 29 (26.85%) PowerShell
3 15 (13.89%) SQL
4 13 (12.04%) Search Processing Language
5 8 (7.41%) Bash
6 7 (6.48%) Bicep
6 7 (6.48%) C#
7 3 (2.78%) Java
7 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.85%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.93%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.04%) GCIH
4 12 (11.11%) CISSP
5 10 (9.26%) Degree
6 9 (8.33%) GCFA
7 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.63%) GCIA
9 4 (3.70%) SANS
10 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.78%) OSCP
11 2 (1.85%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.85%) GIAC
12 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.93%) CISM
12 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.93%) CRISC
12 1 (0.93%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) NIST
2 10 (9.26%) GDPR
3 8 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (6.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (6.48%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.78%) NCSC
7 2 (1.85%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.85%) QA
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.93%) GLBA
8 1 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.63%) Docker
3 2 (1.85%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.11%) Ansible
2 10 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.48%) Progress Chef
4 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.63%) CASB
6 3 (2.78%) Grafana
6 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.78%) QRadar
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (71.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.67%) Splunk
3 8 (7.41%) Proofpoint
3 8 (7.41%) Tenable
4 6 (5.56%) Databricks
5 5 (4.63%) Cribl.io
6 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.78%) OneTrust
7 3 (2.78%) Oracle
7 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.85%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.85%) Foundry
8 2 (1.85%) IBM
8 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco
9 1 (0.93%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.93%) Google
9 1 (0.93%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.93%) Remedy