Kusto Query Language Contracts

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Kusto Query Language skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kusto Query Language over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 689 788
Rank change year-on-year +144 +99 -135
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 53 30 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.050% 0.069%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £425 £456 £469
25th Percentile £472 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -5.21% +20.00%
75th Percentile £635 £656 £675
90th Percentile - £688 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +51.90%

All Programming Languages
UK

Kusto Query Language is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Top 10 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 27 April 2024. 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 +143 38 £585 -0.43% 19
UK excluding London +72 20 £550 +2.33% 13
Work from Home +136 16 £583 +11.48% 19
London +106 12 £585 -13.33% 5
North of England +30 9 £450 -16.28% 2
North West - 9 £450 - 1
Midlands - 6 £618 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £618 - 1
South East +28 3 £575 - 3
South West - 2 - - 3

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 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 45 (84.91%) Azure
2 28 (52.83%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (18.87%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) ChatGPT
5 5 (9.43%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.66%) AWS
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.66%) GCP
7 3 (5.66%) GitHub
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (43.40%) Firewall
2 13 (24.53%) Network Security
3 5 (9.43%) SD-WAN
3 5 (9.43%) WAN
4 1 (1.89%) HTTP
4 1 (1.89%) Intranet
4 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.89%) LAN
4 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Power BI
2 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.89%) Metadata
2 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 19 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Finance
3 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 8 (15.09%) Electronics
4 8 (15.09%) Manufacturing
4 8 (15.09%) Marketing
4 8 (15.09%) Telecoms
5 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.55%) Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) SOC Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Support Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Analyst
4 7 (13.21%) Consultant
4 7 (13.21%) Security Consultant
4 7 (13.21%) Technical Support
5 6 (11.32%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Cloud Consultant
6 5 (9.43%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 5 (9.43%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Azure Consultant
7 4 (7.55%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 4 (7.55%) Security Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Information Security Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) RESTful
2 7 (13.21%) Hugging Face
2 7 (13.21%) LangChain
2 7 (13.21%) PyTorch
3 5 (9.43%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.89%) CAML
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.89%) SAML
4 1 (1.89%) XML
4 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (41.51%) Security Posture
2 19 (35.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (26.42%) Management Information System
4 5 (9.43%) PKI
5 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.77%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.77%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.77%) Insider Threat
7 2 (3.77%) IoT
8 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 8 (15.09%) Windows
3 4 (7.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (54.72%) Incident Response
3 26 (49.06%) SIEM
4 22 (41.51%) Security Operations
5 21 (39.62%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (39.62%) Threat Intelligence
6 20 (37.74%) Analytics
6 20 (37.74%) Threat Detection
7 19 (35.85%) Cloud Security
7 19 (35.85%) Identity Access Management
8 17 (32.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 14 (26.42%) Computer Science
10 13 (24.53%) Data Analytics
10 13 (24.53%) Penetration Testing
11 11 (20.75%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (16.98%) DevOps
12 9 (16.98%) Machine Learning
13 8 (15.09%) API Integration
13 8 (15.09%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.85%) PowerShell
2 15 (28.30%) SQL
3 13 (24.53%) Python
4 4 (7.55%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (41.51%) Degree
2 21 (39.62%) CISSP
2 21 (39.62%) CompTIA Security+
3 17 (32.08%) Azure Certification
4 16 (30.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (26.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
6 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
7 7 (13.21%) CISM
8 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.89%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 4 (7.55%) NIST
3 4 (7.55%) SLA
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) SCOM
2 1 (1.89%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 43 (81.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) SAP
3 4 (7.55%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) Carbon Black
4 1 (1.89%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto