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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 616 716
Rank change year-on-year -63 +100 +22
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 103 58 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.42% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 63 52 66
10th Percentile £45,289 £45,375 £46,481
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +24.40% -25.36%
75th Percentile £86,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £77,250 £85,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% +13.46% -24.36%

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 18,606 13,666 24,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.92% 27.29% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 13,249 8,945 16,651
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,750
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 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Top 14 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 30 August 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 -44 96 £60,000 -7.69% 36
UK excluding London -80 60 £52,500 -11.02% 29
Work from Home -5 40 £60,000 -13.52% 25
London -29 36 £76,250 +17.31% 15
South West - 20 £51,375 - 4
South East -46 19 £52,500 -25.00% 12
Midlands -32 7 £50,000 -13.04% 1
East of England - 7 £80,000 - 7
North of England -51 6 £85,000 +51.11% 2
East Midlands - 6 £42,500 -
North West -10 4 £85,000 +54.55% 2
Yorkshire -36 2 - -
Scotland -6 1 - - 2
West Midlands -30 1 £75,000 +30.43% 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 47 (45.63%) Azure
2 21 (20.39%) Azure Sentinel
2 21 (20.39%) Entra ID
3 19 (18.45%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (18.45%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (16.50%) AWS
5 16 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (14.56%) Azure Functions
6 15 (14.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 15 (14.56%) Serverless
7 14 (13.59%) GitHub
8 13 (12.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (12.62%) Power Platform
9 12 (11.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (11.65%) IaaS
9 12 (11.65%) PaaS
10 5 (4.85%) GCP
10 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (4.85%) SaaS
11 4 (3.88%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.48%) Firewall
1 18 (17.48%) VPN
2 11 (10.68%) DNS
3 10 (9.71%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.77%) Network Security
5 5 (4.85%) HTTP
6 4 (3.88%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.94%) BGP
7 2 (1.94%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.97%) DHCP
8 1 (0.97%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (12.62%) Power BI
3 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.88%) OLAP
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.94%) Power Query
6 1 (0.97%) Big Data
6 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.97%) Parquet
6 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Git
2 4 (3.88%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.91%) Postman
General
1 39 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.50%) Law
5 12 (11.65%) Finance
6 8 (7.77%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.80%) Legal
8 6 (5.83%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.88%) Banking
9 4 (3.88%) Military
10 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.97%) Games
11 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (45.63%) Analyst
2 27 (26.21%) Security Analyst
3 25 (24.27%) Senior
4 20 (19.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 13 (12.62%) Security Engineer
6 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 12 (11.65%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (10.68%) SOC Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) IT Analyst
8 9 (8.74%) IT Security Analyst
9 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Splunk Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 6 (5.83%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (4.85%) Senior Security Analyst
12 4 (3.88%) Architect
12 4 (3.88%) Information Analyst
12 4 (3.88%) Information Security Analyst
12 4 (3.88%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.24%) Terraform
2 9 (8.74%) PySpark
3 5 (4.85%) REST
4 2 (1.94%) .NET
4 2 (1.94%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.94%) JSON
4 2 (1.94%) OAuth
4 2 (1.94%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.94%) OpenID
4 2 (1.94%) RESTful
5 1 (0.97%) Blazor
5 1 (0.97%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 35 (33.98%) Security Posture
2 14 (13.59%) CSOC
2 14 (13.59%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (11.65%) Podcast
3 12 (11.65%) Public Cloud
4 11 (10.68%) Onboarding
4 11 (10.68%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (8.74%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (7.77%) Management Information System
7 7 (6.80%) Clustering
8 5 (4.85%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (4.85%) PKI
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (3.88%) Driving Licence
9 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.91%) Blog
10 3 (2.91%) CCTV
10 3 (2.91%) Cyberattack
10 3 (2.91%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.10%) Windows
2 18 (17.48%) Linux
3 14 (13.59%) VMS
4 3 (2.91%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.19%) SIEM
2 49 (47.57%) Cybersecurity
3 42 (40.78%) Incident Response
3 42 (40.78%) Security Operations
4 34 (33.01%) Analytics
5 33 (32.04%) Cloud Security
6 32 (31.07%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 31 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (28.16%) Root Cause Analysis
9 28 (27.18%) AI
9 28 (27.18%) SOAR
10 25 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (24.27%) Runbook
11 24 (23.30%) CI/CD
11 24 (23.30%) Threat Intelligence
12 23 (22.33%) DevOps
12 23 (22.33%) Performance Tuning
13 21 (20.39%) Computer Science
13 21 (20.39%) Mentoring
14 20 (19.42%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.54%) PowerShell
2 33 (32.04%) Python
2 33 (32.04%) SQL
3 20 (19.42%) Bash
4 16 (15.53%) Bicep
5 10 (9.71%) Search Processing Language
6 7 (6.80%) C#
7 6 (5.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.91%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 36 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 29 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.42%) CompTIA Security+
4 17 (16.50%) Azure Certification
4 17 (16.50%) CISSP
5 16 (15.53%) GCIA
6 15 (14.56%) Degree
7 14 (13.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (11.65%) GCIH
9 11 (10.68%) CEH
9 11 (10.68%) GIAC
10 10 (9.71%) CompTIA CySA+
11 9 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (8.74%) DV Cleared
11 9 (8.74%) SANS
12 5 (4.85%) CASP
12 5 (4.85%) CCNA CyberOps
12 5 (4.85%) CISM
12 5 (4.85%) GCFA
13 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (6.80%) NIST
2 6 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.91%) NCSC
4 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (18.45%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.65%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (11.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.65%) vSphere
3 3 (2.91%) Firmware
4 1 (0.97%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.80%) Ansible
3 5 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.94%) Kibana
5 1 (0.97%) Grafana
5 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.97%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (69.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.53%) VMware
3 12 (11.65%) ScienceLogic
4 11 (10.68%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (10.68%) Splunk
5 5 (4.85%) Cisco
5 5 (4.85%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.88%) Tenable
7 3 (2.91%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.91%) Intel
7 3 (2.91%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.94%) Carbon Black
8 2 (1.94%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.94%) Google
8 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.97%) Citrix
9 1 (0.97%) Databricks
9 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.97%) YouTube