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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 594 779
Rank change year-on-year -28 +185 +107
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 60 57 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.13% 0.075%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.37% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41 43 59
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £39,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £84,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +70.56% -5.26% -26.92%

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 13,176 15,212 29,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.64% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,255 10,302 24,196
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,096
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -1.82%

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 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Top 11 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 10 March 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 +3 59 £78,500 +57.00% 35
London +28 38 £80,000 +14.29% 7
UK excluding London -36 21 £76,750 +70.56% 35
Work from Home +54 18 £55,000 - 37
South East -9 12 £78,500 +39.56% 13
Midlands -27 6 £50,000 +11.11% 3
West Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 1
North West -13 2 £62,500 +19.05% 4
North of England -39 2 £62,500 +25.00% 7
East Midlands -43 2 £50,000 +11.11% 2
South West - 2 £45,000 - 1

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:

Cloud Services
1 48 (80.00%) Azure
2 25 (41.67%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (28.33%) Power Platform
4 16 (26.67%) Entra ID
5 14 (23.33%) Azure Functions
5 14 (23.33%) SaaS
5 14 (23.33%) Serverless
6 13 (21.67%) Azure AKS
6 13 (21.67%) Datadog
7 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (20.00%) GitHub
7 12 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (18.33%) AWS
8 11 (18.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (16.67%) Azure Storage
10 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (6.67%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.33%) Firewall
2 14 (23.33%) VPN
3 12 (20.00%) WAN
4 9 (15.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.33%) Power BI
2 13 (21.67%) SQL Server
3 11 (18.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
3 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Games
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Analyst
3 12 (20.00%) Senior
4 11 (18.33%) Support Engineer
5 9 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Security Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Senior Support Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Reliability Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Reliability Engineer
9 5 (8.33%) Applications Support
9 5 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (8.33%) Support Analyst
10 4 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (6.67%) Operations Support Engineer
10 4 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) OAuth
2 12 (20.00%) ADO
2 12 (20.00%) SAML
2 12 (20.00%) YAML
3 10 (16.67%) .NET
3 10 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.67%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.33%) CSOC
4 2 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.67%) VMS
2 3 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Analytics
2 30 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (41.67%) Log Analytics
4 24 (40.00%) Incident Response
5 20 (33.33%) SIEM
6 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (28.33%) Security Operations
7 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (25.00%) Observability
9 14 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
10 13 (21.67%) DevOps
10 13 (21.67%) RBAC
10 13 (21.67%) Zero Trust
11 12 (20.00%) Business Continuity
11 12 (20.00%) Cost Management
11 12 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (20.00%) Identity Management
11 12 (20.00%) Incident Management
11 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 43 (71.67%) SQL
2 27 (45.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (28.33%) Python
4 15 (25.00%) C#
5 6 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
2 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (6.67%) CREST Certified
4 4 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) CEH
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CISSP
7 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) GCIA
7 1 (1.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (20.00%) GDPR
2 12 (20.00%) SOC 2
3 4 (6.67%) NIST
3 4 (6.67%) SLA
4 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (28.33%) Terraform
2 12 (20.00%) Ansible
3 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (51.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 12 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 6 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (8.33%) Splunk
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.33%) Cribl.io
6 2 (3.33%) Tenable