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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 534 672
Rank change year-on-year +69 +138 +107
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 53 48 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.11% 0.054%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.53% 0.38% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 16
10th Percentile £355 £425 £456
25th Percentile £455 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £581
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +0.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £575 £635 £656
90th Percentile £649 £641 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 10,015 12,732 20,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.00% 29.61% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,814 9,059 14,540
10th Percentile £358 £350 £394
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £774 £763 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.35% +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 488 464
10th Percentile £25.13 £32.25 £26.16
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.43 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% +0.95% +22.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +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 11 May 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 12 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 11 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
England +93 47 £525 -7.49% 37
London +48 24 £454 -22.39% 14
UK excluding London +59 23 £525 -4.55% 31
Work from Home +47 18 £525 -4.55% 25
Midlands +26 8 £525 -17.32% 3
West Midlands +25 8 £525 -17.32% 3
South East +49 7 £525 -8.70% 15
South West +40 3 £550 - 4
North of England +12 3 £525 +16.67% 1
North West +8 2 £525 +16.67% 1
Scotland - 2 £505 - 6
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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (11.32%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) Azure
2 20 (37.74%) Azure Sentinel
3 15 (28.30%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (26.42%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (20.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (18.87%) Azure AKS
7 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (13.21%) AWS
8 7 (13.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (13.21%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (11.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (11.32%) Collibra
9 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (5.66%) GitHub
10 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.66%) SaaS
11 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) DNS
2 6 (11.32%) Firewall
2 6 (11.32%) HTTP
2 6 (11.32%) SMTP
2 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.66%) FTP
3 3 (5.66%) Network Security
3 3 (5.66%) SSL
4 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.89%) Wireless
4 1 (1.89%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (11.32%) Delta Lake
2 6 (11.32%) GIS
2 6 (11.32%) Power BI
3 5 (9.43%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.77%) Big Data
4 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.77%) Parquet
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Electronics
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Analyst
2 15 (28.30%) Security Analyst
3 7 (13.21%) Incident Responder
3 7 (13.21%) Security Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Incident Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Operations Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Security Incident Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Security Operations Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) SIEM Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) JSON
2 8 (15.09%) .NET
2 8 (15.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (11.32%) Kafka
4 3 (5.66%) YAML
5 2 (3.77%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
1 6 (11.32%) IoT
1 6 (11.32%) SCADA
1 6 (11.32%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (7.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (3.77%) Insider Threat
4 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Shadow IT
5 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) SIEM
2 26 (49.06%) Incident Response
3 25 (47.17%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (37.74%) Analytics
5 16 (30.19%) DevOps
5 16 (30.19%) Security Operations
6 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (24.53%) Threat Detection
8 10 (18.87%) Observability
9 9 (16.98%) Log Analytics
9 9 (16.98%) Threat Intelligence
10 8 (15.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 8 (15.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (15.09%) SOAR
11 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
11 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
11 7 (13.21%) Incident Management
11 7 (13.21%) Microservices
11 7 (13.21%) Threat Analysis
11 7 (13.21%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) Python
2 13 (24.53%) Bicep
2 13 (24.53%) PowerShell
3 8 (15.09%) SQL
4 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) C#
6 2 (3.77%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (11.32%) Degree
5 4 (7.55%) GCIH
6 3 (5.66%) CISSP
6 3 (5.66%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (3.77%) CCNA
7 2 (3.77%) CCSP
7 2 (3.77%) CEH
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) GCIA
7 2 (3.77%) OSCP
8 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.89%) CASP
8 1 (1.89%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) GDPR
2 7 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
3 5 (9.43%) NIST
4 2 (3.77%) GRC
4 2 (3.77%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.77%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
1 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.09%) Grafana
2 8 (15.09%) Terraform
3 5 (9.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.77%) CSIRT
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.77%) SCCM
5 1 (1.89%) logstash
5 1 (1.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 36 (67.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Databricks
3 7 (13.21%) SAP
4 6 (11.32%) Informatica
5 5 (9.43%) Oracle
5 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.55%) ArcSight
6 4 (7.55%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (5.66%) Google
8 2 (3.77%) McAfee
8 2 (3.77%) Okta
9 1 (1.89%) AlienVault
9 1 (1.89%) Darktrace
9 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.89%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.89%) Splunk