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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 616 820
Rank change year-on-year -52 +204 -19
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 88 66 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.14% 0.061%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 0.46% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 60 60 52
10th Percentile £41,700 £45,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,563 £83,750
90th Percentile £106,500 £89,375 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -13.81%

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 17,468 14,328 33,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 29.86% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,425 9,537 24,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,440 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -51 84 £80,000 +23.08% 29
London -2 42 £82,000 +26.15% 8
UK excluding London -63 42 £52,500 -4.55% 23
Work from Home +9 34 £66,000 +20.00% 16
South West - 16 £51,375 - 1
Midlands -22 8 £50,000 +11.11% 3
East Midlands -21 7 £50,000 +11.11% 1
South East -33 7 £52,500 -23.64% 17
North of England -42 6 £85,000 +70.00% 1
East of England -7 5 £80,000 +166.67% 4
North West -16 4 £85,000 +61.90%
Yorkshire -26 2 - - 1
West Midlands -23 1 £75,000 +30.43% 2

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 12 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 54 (61.36%) Azure
2 29 (32.95%) Azure Monitor
3 24 (27.27%) Azure Functions
3 24 (27.27%) Serverless
4 21 (23.86%) Power Platform
5 20 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (21.59%) Azure Key Vault
6 19 (21.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 19 (21.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (20.45%) GitHub
8 16 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (14.77%) Entra ID
10 12 (13.64%) IaaS
10 12 (13.64%) PaaS
11 11 (12.50%) SaaS
12 10 (11.36%) AWS
13 8 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (5.68%) Azure Storage
14 5 (5.68%) GCP
14 5 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.86%) VPN
2 16 (18.18%) Firewall
3 7 (7.95%) Network Security
4 4 (4.55%) WAN
5 3 (3.41%) DNS
5 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.41%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.27%) BGP
6 2 (2.27%) HTTP
6 2 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.86%) Power BI
2 20 (22.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.41%) OLAP
5 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.27%) Power Query
7 1 (1.14%) Big Data
7 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.14%) Parquet
7 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Git
2 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (3.41%) Burp Suite
General
1 34 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (17.05%) Law
5 8 (9.09%) Finance
6 4 (4.55%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.41%) Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Military
8 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Games
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (44.32%) Analyst
2 24 (27.27%) Senior
3 20 (22.73%) Security Analyst
4 19 (21.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 15 (17.05%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 10 (11.36%) IT Analyst
7 10 (11.36%) IT Security Analyst
8 9 (10.23%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Reliability Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Security Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Senior Reliability Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Senior Support Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Support Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Data Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 6 (6.82%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (5.68%) Splunk Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) .NET
1 11 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 8 (9.09%) PySpark
3 6 (6.82%) OAuth
4 4 (4.55%) ADO
4 4 (4.55%) SAML
4 4 (4.55%) YAML
5 2 (2.27%) JSON
5 2 (2.27%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.27%) OpenID
5 2 (2.27%) REST
5 2 (2.27%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 31 (35.23%) Security Posture
2 14 (15.91%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (13.64%) Podcast
3 12 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 11 (12.50%) CSOC
5 8 (9.09%) Onboarding
6 7 (7.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (6.82%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (5.68%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
9 4 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (4.55%) Clustering
9 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
10 3 (3.41%) Cyberattack
10 3 (3.41%) Driving Licence
11 2 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (2.27%) PKI
12 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (1.14%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.68%) VMS
2 21 (23.86%) Windows
3 9 (10.23%) Linux
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.00%) Analytics
2 43 (48.86%) SIEM
3 36 (40.91%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (40.91%) Root Cause Analysis
4 35 (39.77%) Incident Response
5 32 (36.36%) Security Operations
6 29 (32.95%) Log Analytics
7 28 (31.82%) Cloud Security
8 27 (30.68%) AI
8 27 (30.68%) DevOps
9 26 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (28.41%) CI/CD
10 25 (28.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (21.59%) Capacity Planning
12 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
12 19 (21.59%) Runbook
13 18 (20.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 40 (45.45%) SQL
3 23 (26.14%) Python
4 16 (18.18%) Bash
4 16 (18.18%) Bicep
5 15 (17.05%) C#
6 8 (9.09%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (6.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 28 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.32%) Azure Certification
4 14 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (13.64%) Degree
6 9 (10.23%) SANS
7 8 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
8 7 (7.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (7.95%) GIAC
9 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared
9 6 (6.82%) GCIA
9 6 (6.82%) GCIH
10 5 (5.68%) CISSP
11 4 (4.55%) GCFA
12 3 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (3.41%) CEH
12 3 (3.41%) ISACA
13 2 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (2.27%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.82%) SOC 2
3 5 (5.68%) NIST
4 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.55%) GDPR
4 4 (4.55%) SLA
5 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 18 (20.45%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.64%) vSphere
3 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (31.82%) Terraform
2 9 (10.23%) Ansible
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.27%) Kibana
6 1 (1.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (65.91%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.05%) VMware
3 12 (13.64%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (11.36%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (10.23%) Splunk
6 6 (6.82%) Zscaler
7 5 (5.68%) Palo Alto
8 4 (4.55%) Tenable
9 2 (2.27%) Cribl.io
9 2 (2.27%) Google
9 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.14%) Carbon Black
10 1 (1.14%) Cisco
10 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.14%) Databricks
10 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow