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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 583 807
Rank change year-on-year -68 +224 +48
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 65 64 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.15% 0.061%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 0.46% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49 54 52
10th Percentile £45,000 - £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £100,000 £70,000 £81,188
90th Percentile £120,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -26.23%

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 15,339 13,965 32,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 33.45% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,454 10,230 25,110
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,195
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 £110,000 £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 19 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 19 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 -64 63 £80,000 +45.45% 20
London +17 40 £80,000 +23.08% 10
UK excluding London -74 23 £75,000 +66.67% 13
Work from Home +3 15 £55,000 +15.79% 10
South East -51 10 £78,500 +25.60% 6
Midlands -46 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -66 6 £50,000 +11.11% 2
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
North West -25 2 £85,000 +54.55% 1
North of England -67 2 £85,000 +70.00% 3
South West - 2 £45,000 -

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 45 (69.23%) Azure
2 25 (38.46%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 16 (24.62%) Azure Functions
4 16 (24.62%) Entra ID
4 16 (24.62%) Serverless
5 14 (21.54%) Azure Key Vault
6 13 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (20.00%) Datadog
7 12 (18.46%) Azure AKS
7 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (18.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (18.46%) GitHub
7 12 (18.46%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (18.46%) SaaS
8 10 (15.38%) Azure Storage
9 8 (12.31%) AWS
9 8 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 19 (29.23%) Firewall
2 14 (21.54%) VPN
3 12 (18.46%) WAN
4 7 (10.77%) Network Security
5 2 (3.08%) BGP
5 2 (3.08%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (30.77%) Power BI
2 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
3 10 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.69%) Finance
3 17 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.23%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Games
6 2 (3.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) Analyst
3 14 (21.54%) Senior
4 13 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Senior Support Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) IT Analyst
7 8 (12.31%) IT Security Analyst
7 8 (12.31%) Reliability Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Security Analyst
7 8 (12.31%) Senior Reliability Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Security Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (7.69%) Support Analyst
11 4 (6.15%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.54%) OAuth
2 12 (18.46%) .NET
2 12 (18.46%) .NET Core
2 12 (18.46%) ADO
2 12 (18.46%) SAML
2 12 (18.46%) YAML
3 4 (6.15%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.08%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.08%) OpenID
4 2 (3.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 9 (13.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (12.31%) CSOC
4 6 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
4 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.15%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (4.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.08%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (36.92%) VMS
2 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 34 (52.31%) Analytics
3 25 (38.46%) Log Analytics
4 24 (36.92%) SIEM
5 22 (33.85%) Incident Response
6 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (30.77%) Security Operations
7 19 (29.23%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (29.23%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (24.62%) RBAC
9 15 (23.08%) DevOps
9 15 (23.08%) Zero Trust
10 14 (21.54%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 13 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (20.00%) Runbook
12 12 (18.46%) Cloud Operations
12 12 (18.46%) Observability
12 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (18.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) SQL
2 31 (47.69%) PowerShell
3 21 (32.31%) Python
4 17 (26.15%) C#
5 7 (10.77%) Bicep
5 7 (10.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) SANS
4 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (4.62%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.08%) CEH
6 2 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.54%) CISSP
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) GCIA
7 1 (1.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (21.54%) SOC 2
3 12 (18.46%) GDPR
4 4 (6.15%) SLA
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.46%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (30.77%) Terraform
2 12 (18.46%) Ansible
3 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.54%) Zscaler
3 12 (18.46%) Palo Alto
4 9 (13.85%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.15%) Splunk
7 2 (3.08%) Cribl.io
7 2 (3.08%) Tenable