Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Kusto Query Language skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kusto Query Language over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 683 1031 1015
Rank change year-on-year +348 -16 -282
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 50 59 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.047% 0.065%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.10% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48 47 25
10th Percentile £42,125 £48,750 £49,000
25th Percentile £51,625 £55,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,510 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -7.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,382 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
UK

Kusto Query Language is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,953 57,743 67,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.57% 45.89% 52.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,206 36,754 45,306
10th Percentile £39,750 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kusto Query Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kusto Query Language.

Salary trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 +323 48 £65,520 +0.80% 36
Work from Home +260 32 £68,750 +5.77% 21
UK excluding London +236 25 £60,000 -7.69% 25
London +257 18 £68,750 +10.89% 10
North of England +139 10 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North West +117 8 £70,000 +9.80% 2
South East +159 7 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Midlands +132 6 £53,500 -16.08% 2
West Midlands +122 6 £53,500 -20.74% 2
Scotland +53 2 £80,000 +25.98% 1
South West - 2 £52,500 - 11
North East +41 1 £70,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire - 1 £40,000 - 2

Kusto Query Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) CMS
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 45 (90.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 13 (26.00%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (24.00%) AWS
5 11 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (18.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (12.00%) Azure API Management
7 6 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (12.00%) Cloudflare
7 6 (12.00%) GCP
8 4 (8.00%) Azure AKS
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Storage
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
9 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Network Security
2 9 (18.00%) Firewall
3 6 (12.00%) NGFW
4 4 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (4.00%) Internet
5 2 (4.00%) VoIP
6 1 (2.00%) IPv4
6 1 (2.00%) IPv6
6 1 (2.00%) tcpdump
6 1 (2.00%) VPN
6 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) Big Data
2 6 (12.00%) Redis
3 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Marketing
4 6 (12.00%) Retail
5 5 (10.00%) Electronics
5 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Health Technology
6 3 (6.00%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Senior
2 10 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Architect
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Incident Responder
4 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Technical Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Security Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Cloud Consultant
6 4 (8.00%) Consultant
6 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) RESTful
2 6 (12.00%) Next.js
2 6 (12.00%) Node.js
2 6 (12.00%) React
3 4 (8.00%) REST
4 3 (6.00%) .NET
4 3 (6.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.00%) FIDO
6 1 (2.00%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.00%) LangChain
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (2.00%) OAuth
6 1 (2.00%) OpenID
6 1 (2.00%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.00%) Cyberattack
2 6 (12.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.00%) Blog
5 2 (4.00%) Housing Association
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Cybersecurity
1 23 (46.00%) SIEM
2 20 (40.00%) Analytics
3 19 (38.00%) Cloud Security
4 18 (36.00%) Security Operations
5 16 (32.00%) DevSecOps
6 15 (30.00%) DevOps
7 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (22.00%) Incident Response
9 10 (20.00%) Information Security
9 10 (20.00%) ITIL
10 9 (18.00%) Data Engineering
11 8 (16.00%) ETL
11 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
11 8 (16.00%) Use Case
12 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
12 7 (14.00%) Open Source
12 7 (14.00%) Purple Team
12 7 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (14.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) PowerShell
2 19 (38.00%) Python
3 14 (28.00%) SQL
4 6 (12.00%) Bash
4 6 (12.00%) C#
4 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) Bicep
5 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Degree
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (10.00%) CCSP
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (10.00%) CISSP
4 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (10.00%) SSCP
5 3 (6.00%) CEH
5 3 (6.00%) CISMP
5 3 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.00%) GSEC
6 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.00%) CISA
7 1 (2.00%) CISM
7 1 (2.00%) CRISC
7 1 (2.00%) GIAC
7 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (18.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (12.00%) ISO 9000
4 3 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (4.00%) NIST
6 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.00%) CSIRT
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (84.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Intel
3 5 (10.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) AlienVault
5 2 (4.00%) Mitel
5 2 (4.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.00%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.00%) FireEye
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.00%) Sun
6 1 (2.00%) Tanium