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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 604 799
Rank change year-on-year -61 +195 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 95 69 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.14% 0.073%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.54% 0.48% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 66 62 59
10th Percentile £43,375 £45,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £49,063 £50,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £62,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +17.92% -29.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,938 £83,125
90th Percentile £94,375 £86,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +8.65% -22.96%

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 17,734 14,421 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.29% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,707 9,589 22,724
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,200 £35,212
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 July 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 19 July 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 -36 91 £72,500 +11.54% 24
UK excluding London -77 47 £52,500 -7.08% 18
London -19 43 £80,000 +23.08% 7
Work from Home +25 36 £60,500 -5.10% 15
South West - 17 £51,375 - 2
South East -40 11 £52,500 -23.64% 11
Midlands -27 8 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -12 7 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North of England -35 6 £85,000 +70.00% 3
East of England - 5 £80,000 - 3
North West -11 4 £85,000 +61.90% 1
Yorkshire -34 2 - - 2
West Midlands -18 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 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 55 (57.89%) Azure
2 27 (28.42%) Azure Monitor
3 24 (25.26%) Azure Functions
3 24 (25.26%) Serverless
4 23 (24.21%) Power Platform
5 21 (22.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 21 (22.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 18 (18.95%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (17.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (16.84%) GitHub
9 15 (15.79%) Entra ID
10 14 (14.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (12.63%) AWS
11 12 (12.63%) IaaS
11 12 (12.63%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (12.63%) PaaS
12 11 (11.58%) SaaS
13 5 (5.26%) Azure Storage
13 5 (5.26%) GCP
14 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.05%) VPN
2 17 (17.89%) Firewall
3 7 (7.37%) Network Security
4 6 (6.32%) DNS
5 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.21%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.11%) BGP
7 2 (2.11%) HTTP
7 2 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.11%) WAN
8 1 (1.05%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.21%) Power BI
2 20 (21.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (13.68%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.21%) OLAP
5 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.11%) Power Query
7 1 (1.05%) Big Data
7 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.05%) Parquet
7 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Git
2 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (4.21%) Burp Suite
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.84%) Law
5 7 (7.37%) Finance
6 4 (4.21%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.21%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Military
7 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Games
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (44.21%) Analyst
2 26 (27.37%) Senior
3 23 (24.21%) Security Analyst
4 20 (21.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 13 (13.68%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (11.58%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (10.53%) IT Analyst
8 10 (10.53%) IT Security Analyst
9 9 (9.47%) Security Engineer
10 8 (8.42%) Reliability Engineer
10 8 (8.42%) Senior Reliability Engineer
10 8 (8.42%) Senior Support Engineer
10 8 (8.42%) Support Engineer
11 7 (7.37%) Data Engineer
12 6 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
12 6 (6.32%) SOC Analyst
12 6 (6.32%) SOC Engineer
13 5 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.58%) .NET
1 11 (11.58%) .NET Core
2 9 (9.47%) PySpark
3 4 (4.21%) OAuth
4 2 (2.11%) ADO
4 2 (2.11%) JSON
4 2 (2.11%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.11%) OpenID
4 2 (2.11%) REST
4 2 (2.11%) RESTful
4 2 (2.11%) SAML
4 2 (2.11%) YAML
5 1 (1.05%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.68%) Security Posture
2 14 (14.74%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (13.68%) CSOC
4 12 (12.63%) Podcast
4 12 (12.63%) Public Cloud
5 9 (9.47%) Onboarding
5 9 (9.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (6.32%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (5.26%) Management Information System
8 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.21%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (4.21%) Clustering
8 4 (4.21%) Driving Licence
8 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (3.16%) Cyberattack
10 2 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (2.11%) PKI
11 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (1.05%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.32%) VMS
1 25 (26.32%) Windows
2 12 (12.63%) Linux
3 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.58%) SIEM
2 43 (45.26%) Analytics
3 40 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (42.11%) Incident Response
4 37 (38.95%) Root Cause Analysis
5 36 (37.89%) Security Operations
6 30 (31.58%) Cloud Security
7 27 (28.42%) AI
7 27 (28.42%) Log Analytics
7 27 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (26.32%) DevOps
9 24 (25.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (24.21%) CI/CD
10 23 (24.21%) Runbook
11 22 (23.16%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (23.16%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 21 (22.11%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (21.05%) SOAR
14 19 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.58%) PowerShell
2 39 (41.05%) SQL
3 25 (26.32%) Python
4 18 (18.95%) Bash
5 16 (16.84%) Bicep
5 16 (16.84%) C#
6 8 (8.42%) Search Processing Language
7 6 (6.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 32 (33.68%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.89%) Azure Certification
4 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (12.63%) Degree
6 11 (11.58%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (10.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 10 (10.53%) GCIA
8 9 (9.47%) GIAC
8 9 (9.47%) SANS
9 8 (8.42%) CISSP
9 8 (8.42%) GCIH
10 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
11 5 (5.26%) CEH
11 5 (5.26%) GCFA
12 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (3.16%) CCNA CyberOps
13 3 (3.16%) ISACA
14 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.32%) NIST
3 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.21%) SLA
3 4 (4.21%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.63%) vSphere
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.05%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 26 (27.37%) Terraform
2 7 (7.37%) Ansible
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.11%) Kibana
5 1 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 64 (67.37%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.84%) VMware
3 12 (12.63%) ScienceLogic
4 11 (11.58%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (9.47%) Splunk
6 5 (5.26%) Zscaler
7 4 (4.21%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.21%) Tenable
8 3 (3.16%) Cisco
8 3 (3.16%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.11%) Carbon Black
9 2 (2.11%) Cribl.io
9 2 (2.11%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.11%) Google
9 2 (2.11%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.05%) Citrix
10 1 (1.05%) Databricks
10 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow