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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 619 726
Rank change year-on-year -60 +107 +65
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 94 60 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.52% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 65 55 79
10th Percentile £45,578 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,375 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -27.02%
75th Percentile £84,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £98,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £58,250 £50,309
% change year-on-year -9.87% +15.79% -25.47%

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 18,204 14,253 26,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.69% 28.84% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,982 9,428 19,180
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 31 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 31 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 -42 90 £66,000 +1.54% 35
UK excluding London -60 52 £52,500 -9.87% 22
London -19 37 £80,000 +23.08% 15
Work from Home +13 35 £60,000 -17.24% 26
South West - 18 £51,375 - 3
South East -41 15 £52,500 -25.00% 9
Midlands -38 8 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -19 7 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North of England -26 6 £85,000 +54.55% 8
East of England - 5 £80,000 - 4
North West +4 4 £85,000 +61.90% 4
Yorkshire -32 2 - - 4
West Midlands -22 1 £75,000 +30.43%

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 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 50 (53.19%) Azure
2 23 (24.47%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (22.34%) Azure Functions
3 21 (22.34%) Serverless
4 20 (21.28%) Azure Sentinel
5 19 (20.21%) Power Platform
6 18 (19.15%) Azure Logic Apps
7 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (15.96%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (15.96%) Entra ID
9 14 (14.89%) AWS
9 14 (14.89%) GitHub
10 13 (13.83%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (12.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (12.77%) IaaS
11 12 (12.77%) PaaS
12 9 (9.57%) SaaS
13 5 (5.32%) GCP
14 4 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.15%) VPN
2 16 (17.02%) Firewall
3 8 (8.51%) Network Security
4 7 (7.45%) DNS
5 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.26%) Wireshark
7 3 (3.19%) HTTP
8 2 (2.13%) BGP
8 2 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.06%) DHCP
9 1 (1.06%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (20.21%) Power BI
3 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.26%) OLAP
5 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.13%) Power Query
7 1 (1.06%) Big Data
7 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.06%) Parquet
7 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) Git
2 4 (4.26%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.06%) Postman
General
1 35 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (17.02%) Law
5 5 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Finance
6 4 (4.26%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.26%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Legal
6 4 (4.26%) Military
7 2 (2.13%) Games
8 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (46.81%) Analyst
2 26 (27.66%) Security Analyst
2 26 (27.66%) Senior
3 21 (22.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 12 (12.77%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (10.64%) IT Analyst
5 10 (10.64%) IT Security Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) Security Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) SOC Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Reliability Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Reliability Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Support Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Security Analyst
10 5 (5.32%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (5.32%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) PySpark
2 8 (8.51%) .NET
2 8 (8.51%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.19%) REST
4 2 (2.13%) JSON
4 2 (2.13%) OAuth
4 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.13%) OpenID
4 2 (2.13%) RESTful
5 1 (1.06%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 32 (34.04%) Security Posture
2 14 (14.89%) CSOC
2 14 (14.89%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (12.77%) Podcast
3 12 (12.77%) Public Cloud
4 10 (10.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (9.57%) Onboarding
6 7 (7.45%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (6.38%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (6.38%) Management Information System
8 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.26%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (4.26%) Clustering
8 4 (4.26%) Driving Licence
8 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (3.19%) Cyberattack
10 2 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (2.13%) PKI
11 1 (1.06%) Blog
11 1 (1.06%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.60%) Windows
2 20 (21.28%) VMS
3 12 (12.77%) Linux
4 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (56.38%) SIEM
2 41 (43.62%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (42.55%) Incident Response
4 39 (41.49%) Analytics
5 36 (38.30%) Security Operations
6 35 (37.23%) Root Cause Analysis
7 31 (32.98%) Cloud Security
8 27 (28.72%) AI
9 26 (27.66%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 26 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (26.60%) Runbook
11 23 (24.47%) DevOps
12 22 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (23.40%) Log Analytics
12 22 (23.40%) SOAR
13 21 (22.34%) CI/CD
13 21 (22.34%) Performance Tuning
14 20 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (21.28%) Mentoring
15 19 (20.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.06%) PowerShell
2 34 (36.17%) SQL
3 26 (27.66%) Python
4 19 (20.21%) Bash
5 16 (17.02%) Bicep
6 13 (13.83%) C#
7 8 (8.51%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.06%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 33 (35.11%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.09%) Azure Certification
4 14 (14.89%) CompTIA Security+
4 14 (14.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (11.70%) Degree
5 11 (11.70%) GCIA
6 10 (10.64%) CISSP
6 10 (10.64%) CompTIA CySA+
6 10 (10.64%) GIAC
7 9 (9.57%) SANS
8 8 (8.51%) GCIH
9 6 (6.38%) CEH
9 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (6.38%) DV Cleared
10 5 (5.32%) GCFA
11 4 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (4.26%) CCNA CyberOps
12 3 (3.19%) CASP
12 3 (3.19%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.38%) NIST
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) SLA
3 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.77%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.77%) vSphere
3 1 (1.06%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (25.53%) Terraform
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.32%) Ansible
4 4 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.13%) Kibana
6 1 (1.06%) Grafana
6 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 64 (68.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.02%) VMware
3 12 (12.77%) ScienceLogic
4 11 (11.70%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (9.57%) Splunk
6 4 (4.26%) Cisco
6 4 (4.26%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.26%) Tenable
7 3 (3.19%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.19%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.13%) Carbon Black
8 2 (2.13%) Cribl.io
8 2 (2.13%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.13%) Google
8 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.06%) Citrix
9 1 (1.06%) Databricks
9 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow