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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 588 832
Rank change year-on-year -48 +244 +13
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 67 67 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.16% 0.058%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.48% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 51 57 49
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% - -27.42%

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 15,542 13,865 32,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.47% 32.99% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,562 10,168 25,031
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -60 65 £80,000 +45.45% 18
London +6 42 £80,000 +23.08% 7
UK excluding London -91 23 £65,000 +44.44% 13
Work from Home +18 16 £56,250 +40.63% 8
South East -37 10 £78,500 +25.60% 6
Midlands -48 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -67 6 £50,000 +11.11% 2
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
North West -29 2 £85,000 +54.55%
North of England -66 2 £85,000 +70.00% 1
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 47 (70.15%) Azure
2 25 (37.31%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (29.85%) Power Platform
4 17 (25.37%) Entra ID
5 16 (23.88%) Azure Functions
5 16 (23.88%) Serverless
6 14 (20.90%) Azure Key Vault
6 14 (20.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (19.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 13 (19.40%) Datadog
8 12 (17.91%) Azure AKS
8 12 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (17.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (17.91%) GitHub
8 12 (17.91%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (17.91%) SaaS
9 10 (14.93%) Azure Storage
10 9 (13.43%) AWS
10 9 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (5.97%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 20 (29.85%) Firewall
2 15 (22.39%) VPN
3 12 (17.91%) WAN
4 8 (11.94%) Network Security
5 2 (2.99%) BGP
5 2 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.49%) DNS
6 1 (1.49%) HTTP
6 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.85%) Power BI
2 12 (17.91%) SQL Server
3 10 (14.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Finance
3 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Games
6 2 (2.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (38.81%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (29.85%) Analyst
3 15 (22.39%) Senior
4 13 (19.40%) Support Engineer
5 10 (14.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Senior Support Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) IT Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) IT Security Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Reliability Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Security Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Security Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Senior Reliability Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (5.97%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Platform Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.90%) OAuth
2 12 (17.91%) .NET
2 12 (17.91%) .NET Core
2 12 (17.91%) ADO
2 12 (17.91%) SAML
2 12 (17.91%) YAML
3 4 (5.97%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.48%) PySpark
5 2 (2.99%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Security Posture
2 9 (13.43%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (11.94%) CSOC
4 7 (10.45%) Onboarding
5 6 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.97%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (5.97%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (4.48%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (35.82%) VMS
2 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (53.73%) Analytics
2 35 (52.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (38.81%) SIEM
4 25 (37.31%) Log Analytics
5 23 (34.33%) Incident Response
6 21 (31.34%) Security Operations
7 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (28.36%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (28.36%) Root Cause Analysis
9 17 (25.37%) RBAC
10 16 (23.88%) DevOps
10 16 (23.88%) Zero Trust
11 15 (22.39%) Capacity Planning
12 14 (20.90%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
13 13 (19.40%) Runbook
14 12 (17.91%) Cloud Operations
14 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (17.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (17.91%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 39 (58.21%) SQL
2 33 (49.25%) PowerShell
3 23 (34.33%) Python
4 16 (23.88%) C#
5 7 (10.45%) Bicep
5 7 (10.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) SANS
4 4 (5.97%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.99%) CEH
6 2 (2.99%) GCIA
7 1 (1.49%) CISSP
7 1 (1.49%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) GCIH
7 1 (1.49%) GIAC
7 1 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (20.90%) SOC 2
3 12 (17.91%) GDPR
4 4 (5.97%) SLA
5 3 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (22.39%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.91%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Terraform
2 12 (17.91%) Ansible
3 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 42 (62.69%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.90%) Zscaler
3 12 (17.91%) Palo Alto
4 11 (16.42%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
5 5 (7.46%) Splunk
6 2 (2.99%) Cribl.io
6 2 (2.99%) Tenable
7 1 (1.49%) Carbon Black