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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 602 852
Rank change year-on-year -63 +250 -47
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 74 57 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.13% 0.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 0.41% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 54 51 52
10th Percentile £42,725 - £39,125
25th Percentile £50,350 £45,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.59% -5.83% -12.37%
75th Percentile £88,563 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £106,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -9.19%

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 16,554 13,954 33,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.88% 31.52% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,645 9,172 25,600
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,364 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,125 £98,750
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -35 70 £80,000 +35.59% 30
London +5 44 £85,000 +30.77% 8
UK excluding London -71 26 £52,500 +5.00% 24
Work from Home +18 25 £60,500 +10.00% 16
Midlands -20 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -34 6 £50,000 +11.11% 1
South West - 6 £45,000 - 3
North of England -34 5 £85,000 +70.00% 4
South East -35 4 £52,500 -16.00% 12
North West +13 3 £85,000 +61.90% 2
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 - 1
East of England -16 2 £80,000 +166.67% 6
Yorkshire -38 2 - - 2

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 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 48 (64.86%) Azure
2 25 (33.78%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (24.32%) Power Platform
4 17 (22.97%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (21.62%) Azure Functions
5 16 (21.62%) Azure Sentinel
5 16 (21.62%) Serverless
6 15 (20.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (18.92%) GitHub
8 13 (17.57%) Entra ID
9 12 (16.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (14.86%) SaaS
11 9 (12.16%) Datadog
11 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (10.81%) AWS
12 8 (10.81%) Azure AKS
13 5 (6.76%) Azure Storage
13 5 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 19 (25.68%) Firewall
2 16 (21.62%) VPN
3 8 (10.81%) WAN
4 6 (8.11%) Network Security
5 2 (2.70%) BGP
5 2 (2.70%) DNS
5 2 (2.70%) HTTP
5 2 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.32%) Power BI
2 12 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.70%) Power Query
4 1 (1.35%) Big Data
4 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.35%) Parquet
4 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Git
1 5 (6.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.27%) Finance
3 15 (20.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.11%) Law
5 3 (4.05%) Legal
6 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Games
7 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 29 (39.19%) Analyst
2 20 (27.03%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (27.03%) Senior
3 15 (20.27%) Security Analyst
4 14 (18.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 12 (16.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) IT Analyst
6 9 (12.16%) IT Security Analyst
7 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Reliability Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Senior Reliability Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Senior Support Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Support Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) Security Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (5.41%) Architect
10 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) .NET
1 11 (14.86%) .NET Core
2 10 (13.51%) OAuth
3 8 (10.81%) ADO
3 8 (10.81%) SAML
3 8 (10.81%) YAML
4 5 (6.76%) PySpark
5 2 (2.70%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.70%) OpenID
5 2 (2.70%) REST
5 2 (2.70%) RESTful
6 1 (1.35%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.68%) Security Posture
2 9 (12.16%) CSOC
2 9 (12.16%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (9.46%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (8.11%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.76%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.41%) Podcast
6 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.05%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (4.05%) Cyberattack
7 3 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.70%) PKI
9 1 (1.35%) Clustering
9 1 (1.35%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.08%) VMS
2 9 (12.16%) Windows
3 5 (6.76%) Linux
4 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.00%) Analytics
2 35 (47.30%) SIEM
3 29 (39.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (37.84%) Incident Response
4 28 (37.84%) Security Operations
5 27 (36.49%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (36.49%) Root Cause Analysis
6 25 (33.78%) Log Analytics
7 23 (31.08%) DevOps
8 19 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (24.32%) AI
9 18 (24.32%) CI/CD
10 17 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (22.97%) Cloud Security
10 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (21.62%) Capacity Planning
12 15 (20.27%) Mentoring
13 14 (18.92%) RBAC
14 13 (17.57%) Observability
14 13 (17.57%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.65%) SQL
2 34 (45.95%) PowerShell
3 25 (33.78%) Python
4 12 (16.22%) C#
5 8 (10.81%) Bicep
6 7 (9.46%) Bash
7 6 (8.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (6.76%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) Degree
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) Azure Certification
3 8 (10.81%) SANS
4 6 (8.11%) CompTIA CySA+
4 6 (8.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.76%) CISSP
5 5 (6.76%) GIAC
6 4 (5.41%) CEH
7 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) GCIA
7 3 (4.05%) ISACA
8 2 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.70%) CASP
8 2 (2.70%) CISM
8 2 (2.70%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.70%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (13.51%) SOC 2
3 8 (10.81%) GDPR
4 4 (5.41%) SLA
5 3 (4.05%) NIST
6 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) Terraform
2 10 (13.51%) Ansible
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.70%) Kibana
4 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.35%) Grafana
5 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (64.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) CrowdStrike
2 10 (13.51%) Zscaler
3 8 (10.81%) Palo Alto
4 6 (8.11%) Splunk
5 4 (5.41%) ScienceLogic
5 4 (5.41%) VMware
6 3 (4.05%) Tenable
7 2 (2.70%) Cribl.io
7 2 (2.70%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.35%) Carbon Black
8 1 (1.35%) Databricks
8 1 (1.35%) Google
8 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow