Kusto Query Language Contracts

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 545 683
Rank change year-on-year +69 +138 +112
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 43 55 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.050%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.43% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 16
10th Percentile £343 £425 £456
25th Percentile £454 £497 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £569
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +4.18% -5.21%
75th Percentile £575 £635 £656
90th Percentile £640 - £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kusto Query Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kusto Query Language.

Daily rate trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kusto Query Language.

Hourly rate trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Top 11 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +62 39 £525 -10.26% 30
London +46 23 £433 -25.94% 10
Work from Home +47 15 £525 -4.55% 17
UK excluding London +46 14 £525 -4.55% 25
South East +46 6 £525 -8.70% 5
South West +44 3 £550 - 5
North of England +22 3 £525 +16.67% 2
Midlands +20 2 £525 -14.98% 5
West Midlands +12 2 £525 -14.98% 5
North West +4 2 £525 +16.67% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Kusto Query Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 17 (39.53%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (32.56%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (27.91%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) Azure AKS
6 7 (16.28%) AWS
6 7 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.98%) SaaS
9 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.65%) GCP
9 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) DNS
2 6 (13.95%) HTTP
2 6 (13.95%) SMTP
2 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.30%) Firewall
4 3 (6.98%) FTP
4 3 (6.98%) SSL
5 2 (4.65%) Network Security
6 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.33%) Wireless
6 1 (2.33%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.65%) Big Data
2 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.65%) Parquet
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.95%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) Electronics
8 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.33%) Marketing
8 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Analyst
2 11 (25.58%) Security Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Incident Responder
3 7 (16.28%) Security Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Incident Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Operations Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Security Incident Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Security Operations Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Site Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Consultant
7 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) SIEM Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) SOC Consultant
8 2 (4.65%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) JSON
2 8 (18.60%) .NET
2 8 (18.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (6.98%) YAML
4 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (4.65%) Insider Threat
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Shadow IT
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) SIEM
2 23 (53.49%) Incident Response
3 22 (51.16%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (34.88%) Analytics
4 15 (34.88%) Security Operations
5 13 (30.23%) DevOps
6 12 (27.91%) Threat Detection
7 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (20.93%) Log Analytics
9 8 (18.60%) Observability
9 8 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (18.60%) SOAR
9 8 (18.60%) Threat Intelligence
10 7 (16.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 7 (16.28%) Incident Management
10 7 (16.28%) Microservices
11 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
11 6 (13.95%) ITSM
11 6 (13.95%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 6 (13.95%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
2 10 (23.26%) Bicep
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.98%) C#
5 2 (4.65%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (11.63%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) GCIH
6 2 (4.65%) CCNA
6 2 (4.65%) CCSP
6 2 (4.65%) CEH
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.65%) CISSP
6 2 (4.65%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.65%) OSCP
7 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.33%) GCFA
7 1 (2.33%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (11.63%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) GRC
3 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.65%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) Grafana
3 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.63%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) CSIRT
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.65%) SCCM
5 1 (2.33%) logstash
5 1 (2.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (65.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.30%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (6.98%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.65%) Databricks
5 2 (4.65%) McAfee
5 2 (4.65%) Okta
6 1 (2.33%) AlienVault
6 1 (2.33%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.33%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Splunk