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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 668 784
Rank change year-on-year +133 +116 -109
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 49 28 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.049% 0.071%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 25
10th Percentile £425 £513 £448
25th Percentile £516 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £635 £672 £675
90th Percentile £650 £688 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +46.34%

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 12,722 19,828 31,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.90% 34.62% 36.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,047 14,307 23,128
10th Percentile £350 £390 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £655
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 443 499
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.09 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.43 £60.70 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +20.92% +18.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +120 36 £550 -6.38% 17
UK excluding London +59 19 £550 - 12
Work from Home +122 17 £550 +18.28% 12
London +97 11 £585 -6.40% 3
North of England +27 8 £450 -18.18% 4
North West - 8 £450 -
South West - 6 £550 - 3
South East +24 3 £575 - 4
Midlands - 2 £635 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £635 - 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 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 36 (73.47%) Azure
2 21 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (16.33%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 5 (10.20%) ChatGPT
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.12%) AWS
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.12%) GCP
7 3 (6.12%) GitHub
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.08%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.04%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.69%) Firewall
2 7 (14.29%) Network Security
3 5 (10.20%) SD-WAN
3 5 (10.20%) WAN
4 1 (2.04%) HTTP
4 1 (2.04%) Intranet
4 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.04%) LAN
4 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.04%) Metadata
2 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
4 8 (16.33%) Electronics
4 8 (16.33%) Manufacturing
4 8 (16.33%) Marketing
4 8 (16.33%) Telecoms
5 7 (14.29%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (18.37%) Support Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Consultant
3 7 (14.29%) Security Consultant
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 6 (12.24%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Consultant
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Technical Support
5 5 (10.20%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) RESTful
2 5 (10.20%) Hugging Face
2 5 (10.20%) LangChain
2 5 (10.20%) PyTorch
3 3 (6.12%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.04%) CAML
4 1 (2.04%) JSON
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.04%) SAML
4 1 (2.04%) XML
4 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Security Posture
2 12 (24.49%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (16.33%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (16.33%) Management Information System
4 5 (10.20%) PKI
5 4 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (4.08%) Cyberattack
7 2 (4.08%) Insider Threat
8 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
8 1 (2.04%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 8 (16.33%) Windows
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Cybersecurity
1 25 (51.02%) Incident Response
2 19 (38.78%) SIEM
2 19 (38.78%) Threat Intelligence
3 18 (36.73%) Threat Detection
4 15 (30.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 15 (30.61%) Security Operations
5 14 (28.57%) Analytics
5 14 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (26.53%) Cloud Security
6 13 (26.53%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (24.49%) Use Case
8 10 (20.41%) DevOps
8 10 (20.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 9 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (16.33%) Change Management
10 8 (16.33%) Digital Marketing
10 8 (16.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) PowerShell
2 13 (26.53%) SQL
3 11 (22.45%) Python
4 8 (16.33%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Degree
2 14 (28.57%) CISSP
2 14 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Certification
4 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (14.29%) CISM
5 7 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
6 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.04%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (8.16%) GDPR
3 4 (8.16%) NIST
3 4 (8.16%) SLA
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) SCOM
2 1 (2.04%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 38 (77.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.33%) SAP
2 8 (16.33%) Splunk
3 2 (4.08%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Carbon Black
4 1 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto