Kusto Query Language Job Trends

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Kusto Query Language skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 619 700
Rank change year-on-year -74 +81 +15
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 114 51 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.60% 0.39% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 67 45 59
10th Percentile £45,867 £46,500 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +22.64% -24.29%
75th Percentile £78,125 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £74,703 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -24.29%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,845 12,949 23,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 26.44% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,326 8,349 14,448
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,496
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kusto Query Language job vacancy trend in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Salary Trend

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

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

Kusto Query Language
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 September 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
England -65 103 £59,750 -8.08% 87
UK excluding London -103 65 £55,000 -6.78% 54
Work from Home -8 50 £64,000 -7.76% 49
London -44 37 £72,500 +11.54% 33
South East -45 22 £52,500 -25.00% 23
South West - 22 £51,375 - 4
North of England -55 8 £71,250 +23.91% 10
East of England - 7 £80,000 - 7
Midlands -55 5 £35,000 -39.13% 5
East Midlands - 5 £35,000 - 3
North West -29 4 £65,000 +6.66% 6
Yorkshire -36 4 £71,250 +23.91% 3
Scotland +3 1 - - 3

Kusto Query Language
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.86%) Azure
2 29 (25.44%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (24.56%) Entra ID
4 23 (20.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 19 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (15.79%) AWS
7 16 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (14.04%) GitHub
8 14 (12.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 14 (12.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (11.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (11.40%) Azure Functions
9 13 (11.40%) Serverless
10 12 (10.53%) IaaS
10 12 (10.53%) PaaS
11 11 (9.65%) Power Platform
12 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.04%) Firewall
1 16 (14.04%) VPN
2 11 (9.65%) DNS
3 10 (8.77%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.26%) Network Security
5 5 (4.39%) HTTP
6 4 (3.51%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.75%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.88%) BGP
8 1 (0.88%) DHCP
8 1 (0.88%) Internet
8 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.88%) NGFW
8 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (9.65%) Power BI
3 6 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.51%) OLAP
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.75%) Power Query
5 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.88%) Big Data
6 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Parquet
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Git
2 4 (3.51%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.63%) Postman
General
1 43 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (19.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (14.91%) Law
4 13 (11.40%) Finance
5 9 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.14%) Legal
6 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.26%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.51%) Banking
8 4 (3.51%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (48.25%) Analyst
2 34 (29.82%) Security Analyst
3 31 (27.19%) Senior
4 22 (19.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 17 (14.91%) Security Engineer
6 14 (12.28%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (11.40%) SOC Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (7.02%) IT Analyst
9 8 (7.02%) IT Security Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.14%) Senior Security Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) Senior Security Engineer
10 7 (6.14%) Splunk Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
12 4 (3.51%) Lead
12 4 (3.51%) PowerShell Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.81%) Terraform
2 8 (7.02%) PySpark
3 5 (4.39%) REST
4 3 (2.63%) JSON
4 3 (2.63%) OAuth
5 2 (1.75%) RESTful
6 1 (0.88%) Blazor
6 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.88%) OpenID
6 1 (0.88%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 14 (12.28%) Security Operations Centre
2 14 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (11.40%) CSOC
3 13 (11.40%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 12 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 12 (10.53%) Podcast
4 12 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.14%) Clustering
5 7 (6.14%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.51%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.51%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.51%) IoT
6 4 (3.51%) PKI
6 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.63%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.07%) Windows
2 17 (14.91%) Linux
3 12 (10.53%) VMS
4 3 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (63.16%) SIEM
2 63 (55.26%) Cybersecurity
3 50 (43.86%) Incident Response
3 50 (43.86%) Security Operations
4 39 (34.21%) Cloud Security
5 37 (32.46%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (30.70%) Analytics
6 35 (30.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 31 (27.19%) SOAR
8 29 (25.44%) AI
9 27 (23.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 26 (22.81%) Mentoring
10 26 (22.81%) Security Monitoring
10 26 (22.81%) Threat Intelligence
11 25 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (21.05%) CI/CD
12 24 (21.05%) Runbook
13 23 (20.18%) DevOps
13 23 (20.18%) Performance Tuning
14 21 (18.42%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.86%) PowerShell
2 33 (28.95%) Python
3 31 (27.19%) SQL
4 20 (17.54%) Bash
5 15 (13.16%) Bicep
6 10 (8.77%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (4.39%) C#
7 5 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.63%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 39 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 21 (18.42%) CISSP
3 21 (18.42%) CompTIA Security+
4 17 (14.91%) Azure Certification
4 17 (14.91%) GCIA
5 16 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (13.16%) Degree
7 13 (11.40%) CEH
7 13 (11.40%) GCIH
8 12 (10.53%) GIAC
9 11 (9.65%) CompTIA CySA+
10 10 (8.77%) SANS
11 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (7.02%) CISM
12 8 (7.02%) DV Cleared
13 5 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (4.39%) CASP
13 5 (4.39%) CCNA CyberOps
13 5 (4.39%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.89%) NIST
3 6 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.51%) NCSC
6 2 (1.75%) GDPR
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.53%) vSphere
3 3 (2.63%) Firmware
4 1 (0.88%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.14%) Ansible
3 4 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.75%) Kibana
4 2 (1.75%) WMI
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 85 (74.56%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.04%) VMware
3 14 (12.28%) Splunk
4 12 (10.53%) ScienceLogic
5 9 (7.89%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (4.39%) Cisco
6 5 (4.39%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.51%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.63%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.63%) Intel
9 2 (1.75%) Carbon Black
9 2 (1.75%) Databricks
9 2 (1.75%) Google
9 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.75%) Tenable
9 2 (1.75%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.88%) Citrix
10 1 (0.88%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.88%) YouTube