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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 614 713
Rank change year-on-year -76 +99 +22
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 103 58 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.12% 0.098%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 60 52 61
10th Percentile £44,675 £45,375 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £65,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +22.64% -24.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £77,250 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% +13.46% -24.36%

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 18,583 13,094 24,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 26.55% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,254 8,464 15,857
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,825
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 5 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 5 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 -70 95 £57,250 -11.92% 56
UK excluding London -85 58 £52,500 -11.02% 32
Work from Home -4 43 £60,500 -4.64% 29
London -34 36 £72,500 +11.54% 30
South West - 21 £51,375 - 5
South East -38 19 £52,500 -25.00% 15
East of England - 7 £80,000 - 8
Midlands -37 5 £35,000 -39.13% 2
North of England -60 5 £65,000 +15.56%
East Midlands - 5 £35,000 -
North West -9 3 £65,000 +18.18%
Yorkshire -47 2 - -
Scotland -5 1 - - 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 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 45 (43.69%) Azure
2 23 (22.33%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (21.36%) Entra ID
4 20 (19.42%) Azure Sentinel
5 19 (18.45%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (15.53%) AWS
6 16 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (14.56%) Azure Functions
7 15 (14.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 15 (14.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (14.56%) Serverless
8 14 (13.59%) GitHub
9 12 (11.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (11.65%) IaaS
9 12 (11.65%) PaaS
9 12 (11.65%) Power Platform
10 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (4.85%) SaaS
12 3 (2.91%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.53%) Firewall
1 16 (15.53%) VPN
2 11 (10.68%) DNS
3 10 (9.71%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.80%) Network Security
5 5 (4.85%) HTTP
6 4 (3.88%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.94%) BGP
7 2 (1.94%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.97%) DHCP
8 1 (0.97%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (11.65%) Power BI
3 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.88%) OLAP
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.94%) Power Query
6 1 (0.97%) Big Data
6 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.97%) Parquet
6 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Git
2 4 (3.88%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.91%) Postman
General
1 38 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.50%) Law
5 13 (12.62%) Finance
6 8 (7.77%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.80%) Legal
8 6 (5.83%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.88%) Banking
9 4 (3.88%) Military
9 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (46.60%) Analyst
2 28 (27.18%) Security Analyst
2 28 (27.18%) Senior
3 20 (19.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 13 (12.62%) Security Engineer
4 13 (12.62%) SOC Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 12 (11.65%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (7.77%) IT Analyst
6 8 (7.77%) IT Security Analyst
7 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Splunk Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (5.83%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) Senior Security Analyst
10 4 (3.88%) Information Analyst
10 4 (3.88%) Information Security Analyst
10 4 (3.88%) PowerShell Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) Terraform
2 8 (7.77%) PySpark
3 5 (4.85%) REST
4 3 (2.91%) JSON
5 2 (1.94%) .NET
5 2 (1.94%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.94%) OAuth
5 2 (1.94%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.94%) OpenID
5 2 (1.94%) RESTful
6 1 (0.97%) Blazor
6 1 (0.97%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 35 (33.98%) Security Posture
2 14 (13.59%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (12.62%) CSOC
4 12 (11.65%) Podcast
4 12 (11.65%) Public Cloud
5 11 (10.68%) Onboarding
5 11 (10.68%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (9.71%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (8.74%) Management Information System
8 7 (6.80%) Clustering
9 5 (4.85%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (4.85%) PKI
10 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
10 4 (3.88%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (3.88%) Driving Licence
10 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (2.91%) Blog
11 3 (2.91%) CCTV
11 3 (2.91%) Cyberattack
11 3 (2.91%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.16%) Windows
2 16 (15.53%) Linux
3 14 (13.59%) VMS
4 3 (2.91%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (61.17%) SIEM
2 53 (51.46%) Cybersecurity
3 44 (42.72%) Security Operations
4 42 (40.78%) Incident Response
5 35 (33.98%) Analytics
5 35 (33.98%) Cloud Security
6 34 (33.01%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 33 (32.04%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (29.13%) SOAR
9 28 (27.18%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (26.21%) AI
11 25 (24.27%) Runbook
12 24 (23.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (23.30%) Security Monitoring
13 23 (22.33%) CI/CD
13 23 (22.33%) Mentoring
13 23 (22.33%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (22.33%) Threat Intelligence
14 22 (21.36%) DevOps
15 21 (20.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 49 (47.57%) PowerShell
2 32 (31.07%) SQL
3 31 (30.10%) Python
4 20 (19.42%) Bash
5 15 (14.56%) Bicep
6 10 (9.71%) Search Processing Language
7 7 (6.80%) C#
8 5 (4.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.91%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 35 (33.98%) Security Cleared
2 28 (27.18%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.42%) CompTIA Security+
4 18 (17.48%) CISSP
5 16 (15.53%) Azure Certification
5 16 (15.53%) GCIA
5 16 (15.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (14.56%) Degree
7 12 (11.65%) GCIH
7 12 (11.65%) GIAC
8 11 (10.68%) CEH
9 9 (8.74%) CompTIA CySA+
9 9 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (8.74%) SANS
10 8 (7.77%) DV Cleared
11 6 (5.83%) CISM
12 5 (4.85%) CASP
12 5 (4.85%) CCNA CyberOps
12 5 (4.85%) GCFA
13 4 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.80%) NIST
3 6 (5.83%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.91%) NCSC
5 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.97%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (16.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.65%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (11.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (11.65%) vSphere
3 3 (2.91%) Firmware
4 1 (0.97%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.80%) Ansible
3 5 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.94%) Kibana
5 1 (0.97%) Grafana
5 1 (0.97%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (69.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.53%) VMware
3 12 (11.65%) ScienceLogic
3 12 (11.65%) Splunk
4 9 (8.74%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (4.85%) Cisco
5 5 (4.85%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.91%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.91%) Intel
7 3 (2.91%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.94%) Carbon Black
8 2 (1.94%) Google
8 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.94%) Tenable
9 1 (0.97%) Citrix
9 1 (0.97%) Databricks
9 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.97%) YouTube