Kusto Query Language Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kusto Query Language skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 495 719
Rank change year-on-year -83 +224 -77
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 20 36 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.12% 0.043%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.44% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14 31 26
10th Percentile £37,025 - £38,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £81,250 £60,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +41.59% -5.83% -12.37%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,258 8,238 22,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.41% 27.73% 29.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,239 5,254 16,846
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,411 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,438
90th Percentile £86,050 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kusto Query Language relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Kusto Query Language job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kusto Query Language.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kusto Query Language

Kusto Query Language
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK excluding London

Kusto Query Language
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kusto Query Language within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -31 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -33 6 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North of England -46 4 £85,000 +70.00% 5
South West - 4 £45,000 - 3
North West -5 3 £85,000 +61.90% 1
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 - 1
South East -37 2 £74,250 +14.23% 10
East of England -28 1 £80,000 +166.67% 8
Yorkshire -38 1 - - 4
Kusto Query Language
UK

Kusto Query Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (10.00%) IaaS
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Games
4 2 (10.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) IT Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) IT Security Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) Blazor
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (30.00%) CSOC
3 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (15.00%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (10.00%) Podcast
6 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) SIEM
2 12 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 11 (55.00%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (45.00%) AI
6 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (30.00%) Customer Engagement
7 6 (30.00%) DevOps
7 6 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 5 (25.00%) Analytics
8 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
8 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (25.00%) SOAR
9 4 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
9 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
9 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
9 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Bicep
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (20.00%) SANS
4 3 (15.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (15.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 2 (10.00%) CEH
5 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
6 1 (5.00%) GCIA
6 1 (5.00%) GCIH
6 1 (5.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) ScienceLogic
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Carbon Black
3 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow