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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 628 691
Rank change year-on-year -62 +63 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kusto Query Language 118 52 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 0.41% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 66 45 57
10th Percentile £46,348 £43,500 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +22.64% -24.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £74,055 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.58% +10.95% -25.00%

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 18,350 12,783 22,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 25.68% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 8,186 13,630
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Top 15 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 9 October 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 -68 106 £59,500 -8.46% 80
UK excluding London -97 71 £55,000 -5.58% 48
Work from Home +13 54 £64,000 +0.88% 46
London -44 36 £72,500 +11.54% 36
South East -42 25 £53,750 -23.21% 21
South West - 22 £51,375 -
North of England -68 9 £57,500 +4.55% 9
East of England - 7 £80,000 - 5
North West -21 5 £45,000 -14.29% 5
Midlands -43 5 £35,000 -39.13% 5
East Midlands - 5 £35,000 - 3
Yorkshire -32 4 £71,250 +23.91% 3
Scotland +3 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £47,500 - 3
Northern Ireland - 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 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.46%) Azure
2 36 (30.51%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (27.12%) Entra ID
4 28 (23.73%) Azure Sentinel
5 20 (16.95%) AWS
5 20 (16.95%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (13.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (13.56%) GitHub
7 13 (11.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (11.02%) Azure Functions
7 13 (11.02%) Azure Key Vault
7 13 (11.02%) Serverless
8 12 (10.17%) IaaS
8 12 (10.17%) PaaS
8 12 (10.17%) Power Platform
9 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.54%) GCP
10 3 (2.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.56%) VPN
2 15 (12.71%) Firewall
3 11 (9.32%) DNS
4 10 (8.47%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.24%) HTTP
5 5 (4.24%) Network Security
6 4 (3.39%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.69%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.85%) DHCP
8 1 (0.85%) Internet
8 1 (0.85%) NGFW
8 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (10.17%) Power BI
3 6 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.39%) OLAP
4 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.69%) Power Query
5 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.85%) Big Data
6 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Parquet
6 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.54%) Postman
General
1 41 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.41%) Law
5 16 (13.56%) Finance
6 10 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (5.93%) Legal
7 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.08%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.39%) Banking
9 4 (3.39%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (50.85%) Analyst
2 37 (31.36%) Security Analyst
3 31 (26.27%) Senior
4 20 (16.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 18 (15.25%) Security Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (11.86%) SOC Engineer
7 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 7 (5.93%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Security Analyst
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Security Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Splunk Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) IT Analyst
9 6 (5.08%) IT Security Analyst
9 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (5.08%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (3.39%) Information Security Analyst
10 4 (3.39%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.34%) Terraform
2 7 (5.93%) PySpark
3 5 (4.24%) REST
4 3 (2.54%) JSON
5 2 (1.69%) OAuth
5 2 (1.69%) RESTful
6 1 (0.85%) Blazor
6 1 (0.85%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 36 (30.51%) Security Posture
2 16 (13.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (11.86%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (11.02%) Management Information System
4 13 (11.02%) Onboarding
5 12 (10.17%) Podcast
5 12 (10.17%) Public Cloud
6 10 (8.47%) CSOC
6 10 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (5.93%) Clustering
7 7 (5.93%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (4.24%) IoT
9 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
9 4 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (3.39%) Driving Licence
9 4 (3.39%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.54%) Cyberattack
10 3 (2.54%) Hedge funds
10 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.97%) Windows
2 18 (15.25%) Linux
3 12 (10.17%) VMS
4 3 (2.54%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (58.47%) SIEM
2 63 (53.39%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (47.46%) Incident Response
4 54 (45.76%) Security Operations
5 38 (32.20%) Cloud Security
5 38 (32.20%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (29.66%) Analytics
7 33 (27.97%) SOAR
8 27 (22.88%) Mentoring
8 27 (22.88%) Root Cause Analysis
8 27 (22.88%) Runbook
8 27 (22.88%) Security Monitoring
9 26 (22.03%) AI
9 26 (22.03%) Threat Intelligence
10 25 (21.19%) CI/CD
11 23 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (19.49%) Performance Tuning
11 23 (19.49%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (18.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 55 (46.61%) PowerShell
2 34 (28.81%) Python
3 32 (27.12%) SQL
4 20 (16.95%) Bash
5 14 (11.86%) Bicep
6 10 (8.47%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (4.24%) C#
8 4 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.54%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 39 (33.05%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 24 (20.34%) CISSP
4 22 (18.64%) CompTIA Security+
5 17 (14.41%) GCIA
6 16 (13.56%) Azure Certification
6 16 (13.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (12.71%) Degree
8 13 (11.02%) CEH
8 13 (11.02%) GCIH
9 12 (10.17%) GIAC
10 11 (9.32%) CompTIA CySA+
11 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (7.63%) SANS
12 8 (6.78%) CISM
12 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
13 6 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (4.24%) CASP
14 5 (4.24%) CCNA CyberOps
14 5 (4.24%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.02%) NIST
3 9 (7.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (5.08%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (3.39%) NCSC
6 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.69%) GDPR
6 2 (1.69%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (18.64%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.17%) vSphere
3 3 (2.54%) Firmware
4 1 (0.85%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.93%) Ansible
3 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.69%) Kibana
4 2 (1.69%) WMI
5 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.85%) QRadar
5 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (76.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.56%) VMware
3 14 (11.86%) Splunk
4 12 (10.17%) ScienceLogic
5 11 (9.32%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (4.24%) Cisco
6 5 (4.24%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.24%) Intel
7 4 (3.39%) Darktrace
7 4 (3.39%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.54%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.69%) Carbon Black
9 2 (1.69%) Databricks
9 2 (1.69%) Google
9 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.69%) Tenable
10 1 (0.85%) Citrix
10 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.85%) YouTube
10 1 (0.85%) Zscaler