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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 602 848
Rank change year-on-year -71 +246 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 79 59 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.13% 0.057%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 0.42% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 54 54 52
10th Percentile £41,400 £45,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,875 £67,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,625 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -16.21%

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 16,891 13,994 34,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.12% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,961 9,238 26,001
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 21 June 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 21 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
England -47 75 £80,000 +31.69% 18
London +9 40 £85,000 +30.77% 4
UK excluding London -72 35 £52,500 +5.00% 16
Work from Home +30 27 £75,500 +37.27% 6
Midlands -17 10 £50,000 +11.11% 1
South West - 10 £48,875 - 2
East Midlands -25 7 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North of England -31 6 £85,000 +70.00% 5
South East -32 6 £52,500 -16.00% 8
North West +2 4 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East of England -12 3 £80,000 +166.67% 4
West Midlands -20 3 £75,000 +30.43%
Yorkshire -36 2 - - 4

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 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 51 (64.56%) Azure
2 27 (34.18%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (25.32%) Azure Functions
3 20 (25.32%) Serverless
4 19 (24.05%) Power Platform
5 18 (22.78%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (22.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 18 (22.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 17 (21.52%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (20.25%) GitHub
8 14 (17.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (16.46%) Entra ID
10 11 (13.92%) SaaS
11 9 (11.39%) AWS
12 8 (10.13%) IaaS
12 8 (10.13%) PaaS
13 7 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (7.59%) Azure AKS
14 6 (7.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.05%) VPN
2 17 (21.52%) Firewall
3 7 (8.86%) Network Security
4 6 (7.59%) WAN
5 3 (3.80%) DNS
5 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.53%) BGP
6 2 (2.53%) HTTP
6 2 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.05%) Power BI
2 16 (20.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (15.19%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.53%) Power Query
6 1 (1.27%) Big Data
6 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.27%) OLAP
6 1 (1.27%) Parquet
6 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Git
2 5 (6.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 28 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.92%) Finance
5 10 (12.66%) Law
6 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.53%) Games
7 1 (1.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Military
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (41.77%) Analyst
2 21 (26.58%) Senior
3 17 (21.52%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) Security Analyst
4 16 (20.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 10 (12.66%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (12.66%) IT Analyst
5 10 (12.66%) IT Security Analyst
6 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (10.13%) Reliability Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Senior Reliability Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Senior Support Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Support Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Security Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (6.33%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (5.06%) Data Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) .NET
1 11 (13.92%) .NET Core
2 8 (10.13%) OAuth
3 6 (7.59%) ADO
3 6 (7.59%) PySpark
3 6 (7.59%) SAML
3 6 (7.59%) YAML
4 2 (2.53%) JSON
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.53%) OpenID
4 2 (2.53%) REST
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
5 1 (1.27%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.11%) Security Posture
2 12 (15.19%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (13.92%) CSOC
4 9 (11.39%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (10.13%) Podcast
5 8 (10.13%) Public Cloud
6 6 (7.59%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
7 5 (6.33%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.80%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.80%) Cyberattack
8 3 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.53%) Clustering
9 2 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (2.53%) PKI
10 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.27%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 25 (31.65%) VMS
2 15 (18.99%) Windows
3 7 (8.86%) Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.63%) Analytics
2 39 (49.37%) SIEM
3 32 (40.51%) Cybersecurity
4 30 (37.97%) Incident Response
4 30 (37.97%) Root Cause Analysis
4 30 (37.97%) Security Operations
5 27 (34.18%) Log Analytics
6 26 (32.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (31.65%) DevOps
8 23 (29.11%) AI
8 23 (29.11%) Cloud Security
9 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (26.58%) CI/CD
11 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (24.05%) Mentoring
13 18 (22.78%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (21.52%) Capacity Planning
15 16 (20.25%) Runbook
15 16 (20.25%) SOAR
16 15 (18.99%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.10%) PowerShell
1 38 (48.10%) SQL
2 25 (31.65%) Python
3 13 (16.46%) C#
4 12 (15.19%) Bash
4 12 (15.19%) Bicep
5 6 (7.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (7.59%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 24 (30.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.72%) Degree
4 13 (16.46%) Azure Certification
5 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (11.39%) SANS
7 8 (10.13%) CompTIA CySA+
7 8 (10.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (8.86%) GIAC
9 6 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (6.33%) CEH
10 5 (6.33%) CISSP
11 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
11 4 (5.06%) GCIA
11 4 (5.06%) GCIH
12 3 (3.80%) ISACA
13 2 (2.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (2.53%) CASP
13 2 (2.53%) CREST Certified
13 2 (2.53%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (10.13%) SOC 2
3 6 (7.59%) GDPR
4 4 (5.06%) SLA
5 3 (3.80%) NIST
6 2 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.13%) vSphere
3 6 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (30.38%) Terraform
2 9 (11.39%) Ansible
3 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.53%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.53%) Kibana
4 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (67.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.66%) CrowdStrike
3 9 (11.39%) VMware
4 8 (10.13%) ScienceLogic
4 8 (10.13%) Zscaler
5 7 (8.86%) Splunk
6 6 (7.59%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.80%) Tenable
8 2 (2.53%) Cribl.io
8 2 (2.53%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.27%) Carbon Black
9 1 (1.27%) Cisco
9 1 (1.27%) Databricks
9 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.27%) Google
9 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow