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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 589 821
Rank change year-on-year -79 +232 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 62 60 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.14% 0.059%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.45% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 50 52 52
10th Percentile £44,675 - £39,125
25th Percentile £53,125 £45,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.59% -5.83% -13.60%
75th Percentile £96,875 £71,563 £82,813
90th Percentile £120,000 £104,375 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -16.13%

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 16,197 13,343 32,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.46% 31.13% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,223 8,996 24,966
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -52 60 £80,000 +39.13% 33
London +10 43 £82,500 +26.92% 14
Work from Home +34 17 £59,750 +8.64% 16
UK excluding London -83 17 £52,500 +5.00% 25
Midlands -37 9 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -29 6 £50,000 +11.11%
North West -4 3 £85,000 +54.55% 1
South East -27 3 £78,500 +20.77% 13
North of England -40 3 £85,000 +70.00% 3
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 - 1
South West - 2 £45,000 - 3

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 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) Azure
2 23 (37.10%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (30.65%) Power Platform
4 15 (24.19%) Azure Functions
4 15 (24.19%) Entra ID
4 15 (24.19%) Serverless
5 13 (20.97%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (20.97%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (19.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (19.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (19.35%) SaaS
7 11 (17.74%) Datadog
7 11 (17.74%) GitHub
8 10 (16.13%) Azure AKS
8 10 (16.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 10 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (12.90%) Azure Storage
10 7 (11.29%) AWS
11 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.03%) Firewall
2 13 (20.97%) VPN
3 10 (16.13%) WAN
4 6 (9.68%) Network Security
5 2 (3.23%) BGP
5 2 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.61%) DNS
6 1 (1.61%) HTTP
6 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.65%) Power BI
2 13 (20.97%) SQL Server
3 10 (16.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.23%) Power Query
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 15 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Games
8 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (37.10%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (29.03%) Analyst
3 14 (22.58%) Senior
4 11 (17.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Support Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 9 (14.52%) Security Analyst
5 9 (14.52%) Senior Support Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) IT Analyst
6 8 (12.90%) IT Security Analyst
6 8 (12.90%) Reliability Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Senior Reliability Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Security Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (6.45%) Architect
8 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) .NET
1 12 (19.35%) .NET Core
1 12 (19.35%) OAuth
2 10 (16.13%) ADO
2 10 (16.13%) SAML
2 10 (16.13%) YAML
3 4 (6.45%) PySpark
4 2 (3.23%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.23%) OpenID
4 2 (3.23%) REST
5 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Security Posture
2 8 (12.90%) CSOC
3 6 (9.68%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.84%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Cyberattack
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.23%) PKI
7 1 (1.61%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.61%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 22 (35.48%) VMS
2 4 (6.45%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (54.84%) Analytics
2 27 (43.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (40.32%) SIEM
4 23 (37.10%) Incident Response
4 23 (37.10%) Log Analytics
5 21 (33.87%) Root Cause Analysis
6 20 (32.26%) Security Operations
7 18 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (29.03%) DevOps
8 17 (27.42%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (25.81%) Capacity Planning
10 15 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (24.19%) RBAC
11 14 (22.58%) Zero Trust
12 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
13 12 (19.35%) Cloud Operations
13 12 (19.35%) MVC
13 12 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (17.74%) AI
14 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (58.06%) SQL
2 29 (46.77%) PowerShell
3 21 (33.87%) Python
4 13 (20.97%) C#
5 6 (9.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (6.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) Degree
4 6 (9.68%) SANS
5 4 (6.45%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (4.84%) CEH
6 3 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (4.84%) GIAC
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.23%) CISSP
7 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.23%) GCIA
7 2 (3.23%) ISACA
8 1 (1.61%) CISM
8 1 (1.61%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.61%) GCIH
8 1 (1.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (19.35%) SOC 2
3 10 (16.13%) GDPR
4 4 (6.45%) SLA
5 3 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (25.81%) Terraform
2 10 (16.13%) Ansible
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) Grafana
6 1 (1.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.35%) Zscaler
3 10 (16.13%) Palo Alto
4 9 (14.52%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.23%) Cribl.io
5 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 2 (3.23%) Tenable
6 1 (1.61%) Carbon Black