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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 611 837
Rank change year-on-year -55 +226 -16
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 67 56 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.13% 0.058%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.41% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 51 50 52
10th Percentile £45,000 - £39,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £94,375 £69,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,375 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -10.05%

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 16,370 13,633 33,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.57% 31.32% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,391 9,132 25,284
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -46 65 £80,000 +39.13% 32
London +20 45 £85,000 +30.77% 8
Work from Home +39 23 £60,250 +9.55% 16
UK excluding London -70 20 £52,500 +5.00% 25
Midlands -31 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -18 6 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North of England -35 4 £85,000 +70.00% 5
South West - 4 £45,000 - 3
North West -6 3 £85,000 +54.55% 1
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 - 1
South East -26 2 £74,250 +18.80% 10
East of England -19 1 £80,000 +166.67% 8
Yorkshire -49 1 - - 4

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 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 45 (67.16%) Azure
2 23 (34.33%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (28.36%) Power Platform
4 16 (23.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (22.39%) Azure Functions
5 15 (22.39%) Serverless
6 14 (20.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (19.40%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (17.91%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (17.91%) Entra ID
8 12 (17.91%) SaaS
9 11 (16.42%) GitHub
10 10 (14.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (13.43%) Datadog
12 8 (11.94%) AWS
12 8 (11.94%) Azure AKS
12 8 (11.94%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (8.96%) Azure Storage
14 4 (5.97%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (5.97%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.87%) Firewall
2 13 (19.40%) VPN
3 8 (11.94%) WAN
4 6 (8.96%) Network Security
5 2 (2.99%) BGP
5 2 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.49%) DNS
6 1 (1.49%) HTTP
6 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.36%) Power BI
2 13 (19.40%) SQL Server
3 10 (14.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.99%) Power Query
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (4.48%) Git
General
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (22.39%) Finance
4 12 (17.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.97%) Law
6 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Legal
7 2 (2.99%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Analyst
2 22 (32.84%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (25.37%) Senior
4 13 (19.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 13 (19.40%) Security Analyst
5 12 (17.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Senior Support Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Support Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) IT Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) IT Security Analyst
7 8 (11.94%) Reliability Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Senior Reliability Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Security Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) SOC Analyst
9 4 (5.97%) Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.91%) .NET
1 12 (17.91%) .NET Core
2 10 (14.93%) OAuth
3 8 (11.94%) ADO
3 8 (11.94%) SAML
3 8 (11.94%) YAML
4 4 (5.97%) PySpark
5 2 (2.99%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.99%) OpenID
5 2 (2.99%) REST
6 1 (1.49%) Blazor
6 1 (1.49%) JSON
6 1 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Security Posture
2 8 (11.94%) CSOC
3 7 (10.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (10.45%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.46%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (5.97%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.48%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (4.48%) Cyberattack
6 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.99%) PKI
7 2 (2.99%) Podcast
7 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.49%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.84%) VMS
2 6 (8.96%) Windows
3 4 (5.97%) Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) Analytics
2 29 (43.28%) SIEM
3 26 (38.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (37.31%) Root Cause Analysis
5 24 (35.82%) Incident Response
5 24 (35.82%) Security Operations
6 23 (34.33%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (34.33%) Log Analytics
7 19 (28.36%) DevOps
8 18 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (23.88%) Capacity Planning
10 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (20.90%) AI
11 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
11 14 (20.90%) Cloud Security
12 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (19.40%) RBAC
13 12 (17.91%) Cloud Operations
13 12 (17.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (17.91%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 36 (53.73%) SQL
2 31 (46.27%) PowerShell
3 23 (34.33%) Python
4 13 (19.40%) C#
5 6 (8.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (7.46%) Bicep
7 3 (4.48%) Bash
8 2 (2.99%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) Degree
3 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.96%) SANS
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.46%) CompTIA CySA+
6 4 (5.97%) CEH
6 4 (5.97%) CISSP
6 4 (5.97%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.97%) GIAC
7 3 (4.48%) ISACA
7 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.99%) CISM
8 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.99%) GCIA
9 1 (1.49%) CCSP
9 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.49%) GCIH
9 1 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (14.93%) SOC 2
3 8 (11.94%) GDPR
4 4 (5.97%) SLA
5 3 (4.48%) NIST
6 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (25.37%) Terraform
2 9 (13.43%) Ansible
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Kibana
5 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (61.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Zscaler
3 9 (13.43%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (11.94%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.48%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) Tenable
6 2 (2.99%) Cribl.io
6 2 (2.99%) ScienceLogic
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) Carbon Black
7 1 (1.49%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow