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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 610 716
Rank change year-on-year -83 +106 +10
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 108 53 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.11% 0.099%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 0.41% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 63 47 58
10th Percentile £45,289 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +22.64% -29.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £74,555 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% +11.32% -24.29%

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 18,457 13,026 24,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.25% 26.34% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13,111 8,383 15,238
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,722
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -31 98 £57,500 -11.54% 119
UK excluding London -85 60 £52,500 -11.02% 89
Work from Home -2 46 £62,500 -9.92% 46
London -32 37 £72,500 +11.54% 38
South West - 21 £51,375 - 10
South East -38 19 £52,500 -25.00% 31
North of England -53 7 £57,500 - 14
East of England - 7 £80,000 - 13
Midlands -45 5 £35,000 -39.13% 11
East Midlands - 5 £35,000 - 8
North West -14 4 £65,000 +6.66% 5
Yorkshire -28 3 £57,500 - 8
Scotland -2 1 - - 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 13 (12.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 48 (44.44%) Azure
2 25 (23.15%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 22 (20.37%) Azure Sentinel
5 20 (18.52%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (15.74%) AWS
7 16 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (13.89%) GitHub
9 14 (12.96%) Azure Functions
9 14 (12.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (12.96%) Serverless
10 13 (12.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (11.11%) IaaS
11 12 (11.11%) PaaS
11 12 (11.11%) Power Platform
12 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (3.70%) SaaS
14 3 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.74%) Firewall
2 16 (14.81%) VPN
3 11 (10.19%) DNS
4 10 (9.26%) TCP/IP
5 7 (6.48%) Network Security
6 5 (4.63%) HTTP
7 4 (3.70%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.85%) BGP
8 2 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.93%) DHCP
9 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.93%) NGFW
9 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (11.11%) Power BI
3 6 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.70%) OLAP
4 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.85%) Power Query
7 1 (0.93%) Big Data
7 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Parquet
7 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 40 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.74%) Law
5 14 (12.96%) Finance
6 8 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.48%) Legal
8 6 (5.56%) Aerospace
8 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.70%) Banking
9 4 (3.70%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (46.30%) Analyst
2 29 (26.85%) Security Analyst
3 28 (25.93%) Senior
4 20 (18.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 15 (13.89%) Security Engineer
6 13 (12.04%) SOC Engineer
7 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (7.41%) IT Analyst
8 8 (7.41%) IT Security Analyst
9 7 (6.48%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Splunk Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 6 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Security Analyst
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Security Engineer
12 4 (3.70%) Information Analyst
12 4 (3.70%) Information Security Analyst
12 4 (3.70%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.07%) Terraform
2 8 (7.41%) PySpark
3 5 (4.63%) REST
4 3 (2.78%) JSON
4 3 (2.78%) OAuth
5 2 (1.85%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.85%) OpenID
5 2 (1.85%) RESTful
6 1 (0.93%) .NET
6 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.93%) Blazor
6 1 (0.93%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 36 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 14 (12.96%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (12.04%) CSOC
4 12 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (11.11%) Podcast
4 12 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 12 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (10.19%) Onboarding
6 10 (9.26%) Management Information System
7 7 (6.48%) Clustering
8 6 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (4.63%) PKI
10 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
10 4 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (3.70%) Driving Licence
10 4 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (2.78%) Hedge funds
11 3 (2.78%) IoT
11 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
11 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.78%) Windows
2 16 (14.81%) Linux
3 13 (12.04%) VMS
4 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (62.04%) SIEM
2 57 (52.78%) Cybersecurity
3 46 (42.59%) Security Operations
4 45 (41.67%) Incident Response
5 37 (34.26%) Cloud Security
6 36 (33.33%) Analytics
7 35 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (31.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 30 (27.78%) SOAR
10 29 (26.85%) AI
11 27 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 25 (23.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (23.15%) Mentoring
12 25 (23.15%) Security Monitoring
13 24 (22.22%) Runbook
13 24 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
14 23 (21.30%) CI/CD
14 23 (21.30%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (20.37%) DevOps
16 21 (19.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 49 (45.37%) PowerShell
2 32 (29.63%) SQL
3 31 (28.70%) Python
4 20 (18.52%) Bash
5 16 (14.81%) Bicep
6 10 (9.26%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (5.56%) C#
8 5 (4.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.78%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 38 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 21 (19.44%) CompTIA Security+
4 18 (16.67%) CISSP
5 17 (15.74%) Azure Certification
6 16 (14.81%) GCIA
6 16 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (13.89%) Degree
8 12 (11.11%) CEH
8 12 (11.11%) GCIH
8 12 (11.11%) GIAC
9 10 (9.26%) CompTIA CySA+
10 9 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (8.33%) SANS
11 8 (7.41%) DV Cleared
12 6 (5.56%) CISM
13 5 (4.63%) CASP
13 5 (4.63%) CCNA CyberOps
13 5 (4.63%) GCFA
14 4 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.48%) NIST
3 6 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.70%) NCSC
5 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.11%) vSphere
3 3 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (0.93%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.48%) Ansible
3 5 (4.63%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.85%) Kibana
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) SCCM
5 1 (0.93%) WMI
Vendors
1 78 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.81%) VMware
3 13 (12.04%) Splunk
4 12 (11.11%) ScienceLogic
5 9 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (4.63%) Cisco
6 5 (4.63%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.70%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.78%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.78%) Intel
8 3 (2.78%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.85%) Carbon Black
9 2 (1.85%) Google
9 2 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.85%) Tenable
10 1 (0.93%) Citrix
10 1 (0.93%) Databricks
10 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.93%) YouTube