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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 608 857
Rank change year-on-year -49 +249 -51
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 77 58 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.13% 0.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.42% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 54 53 51
10th Percentile £41,400 - £38,750
25th Percentile £50,350 £45,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -4.17% -13.60%
75th Percentile £88,000 £67,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -17.01%

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 16,716 13,966 34,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.85% 31.23% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,809 9,201 25,948
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £111,250 £97,500
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 18 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 18 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 -38 73 £80,000 +35.59% 20
London +5 42 £85,000 +30.77% 6
UK excluding London -68 31 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Work from Home +24 26 £66,000 +20.00% 7
Midlands -24 10 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -24 7 £50,000 +11.11% 1
South West - 7 - - 1
North of England -39 6 £85,000 +70.00% 3
South East -24 5 £52,500 -16.00% 10
North West +8 4 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East of England -14 3 £80,000 +166.67% 4
West Midlands -16 3 £75,000 +30.43%
Yorkshire -36 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 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 51 (66.23%) Azure
2 26 (33.77%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (23.38%) Azure Functions
3 18 (23.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 18 (23.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 18 (23.38%) Power Platform
3 18 (23.38%) Serverless
4 17 (22.08%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (20.78%) Azure Key Vault
6 15 (19.48%) GitHub
7 13 (16.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (16.88%) Entra ID
8 11 (14.29%) SaaS
9 9 (11.69%) AWS
10 8 (10.39%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (9.09%) Azure AKS
11 7 (9.09%) Datadog
12 6 (7.79%) IaaS
12 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (7.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.68%) Firewall
2 18 (23.38%) VPN
3 7 (9.09%) Network Security
3 7 (9.09%) WAN
4 3 (3.90%) DNS
4 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.60%) BGP
5 2 (2.60%) HTTP
5 2 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) Power BI
2 14 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.60%) Power Query
5 1 (1.30%) Big Data
5 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.30%) Parquet
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Git
2 5 (6.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.88%) Finance
5 8 (10.39%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Games
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (38.96%) Analyst
2 20 (25.97%) Senior
3 19 (24.68%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (20.78%) Security Analyst
5 15 (19.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 11 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (12.99%) IT Analyst
7 10 (12.99%) IT Security Analyst
8 8 (10.39%) Reliability Engineer
8 8 (10.39%) Senior Reliability Engineer
8 8 (10.39%) Senior Support Engineer
8 8 (10.39%) Support Engineer
9 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (9.09%) Security Engineer
10 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 5 (6.49%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (6.49%) SOC Analyst
12 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Engineer
12 4 (5.19%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) .NET
1 11 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 9 (11.69%) OAuth
3 7 (9.09%) ADO
3 7 (9.09%) SAML
3 7 (9.09%) YAML
4 5 (6.49%) PySpark
5 2 (2.60%) JSON
5 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.60%) OpenID
5 2 (2.60%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) RESTful
6 1 (1.30%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 11 (14.29%) CSOC
2 11 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (11.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (7.79%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.79%) Podcast
4 6 (7.79%) Public Cloud
5 5 (6.49%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.90%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.90%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.60%) Clustering
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.60%) PKI
8 1 (1.30%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.17%) VMS
2 12 (15.58%) Windows
3 6 (7.79%) Linux
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (49.35%) Analytics
1 38 (49.35%) SIEM
2 31 (40.26%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (40.26%) Security Operations
3 29 (37.66%) Incident Response
3 29 (37.66%) Root Cause Analysis
4 28 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (33.77%) Log Analytics
6 24 (31.17%) DevOps
7 21 (27.27%) AI
7 21 (27.27%) Cloud Security
7 21 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (25.97%) CI/CD
9 18 (23.38%) Mentoring
9 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (22.08%) Capacity Planning
11 16 (20.78%) SOAR
12 14 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 14 (18.18%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.05%) PowerShell
1 37 (48.05%) SQL
2 26 (33.77%) Python
3 12 (15.58%) C#
4 10 (12.99%) Bash
4 10 (12.99%) Bicep
5 6 (7.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (7.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.18%) Degree
4 11 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 9 (11.69%) SANS
6 8 (10.39%) CompTIA CySA+
6 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (9.09%) GIAC
8 6 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (6.49%) CEH
9 5 (6.49%) CISSP
10 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
11 3 (3.90%) GCIA
11 3 (3.90%) GCIH
11 3 (3.90%) ISACA
12 2 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (2.60%) CASP
12 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (2.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (11.69%) SOC 2
3 7 (9.09%) GDPR
4 4 (5.19%) SLA
5 3 (3.90%) NIST
6 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (19.48%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (7.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (29.87%) Terraform
2 10 (12.99%) Ansible
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.60%) Kibana
4 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (66.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) CrowdStrike
3 9 (11.69%) Zscaler
4 7 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 7 (9.09%) Splunk
5 6 (7.79%) ScienceLogic
5 6 (7.79%) VMware
6 3 (3.90%) Tenable
7 2 (2.60%) Cribl.io
7 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.30%) Carbon Black
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco
8 1 (1.30%) Databricks
8 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.30%) Google
8 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow