Kusto Query Language Contracts

Kusto Query Language (KQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Kusto Query Language skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kusto Query Language over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 657 777
Rank change year-on-year +130 +120 -87
Contract jobs citing Kusto Query Language 52 27 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.048% 0.073%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 29
10th Percentile £425 £513 £458
25th Percentile £528 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £635 £688 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.75 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Kusto Query Language is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,943 19,224 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.04% 34.10% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,180 13,863 23,133
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £425 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 432 487
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.54 £19.51
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.07 £71.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

Kusto Query Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kusto Query Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kusto Query Language.

Daily rate trend for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kusto Query Language over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kusto Query Language in the UK

Kusto Query Language
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kusto Query Language within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +114 39 £550 -7.37% 19
UK excluding London +57 21 £550 - 17
Work from Home +119 18 £550 +18.28% 12
London +104 11 £585 -13.33% 2
North of England +28 9 £450 -20.88% 6
North West - 8 £450 - 4
South West - 6 £550 -
South East +13 4 £575 - 6
Midlands +26 2 £635 +15.45% 1
West Midlands +16 2 £635 +15.45% 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £650 +18.18% 2

Kusto Query Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) CMS
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 38 (73.08%) Azure
2 23 (44.23%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (13.46%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (7.69%) ChatGPT
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.77%) GitHub
8 2 (3.85%) AWS
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.85%) GCP
8 2 (3.85%) IaaS
8 2 (3.85%) PaaS
8 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.69%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) Network Security
3 5 (9.62%) SD-WAN
3 5 (9.62%) WAN
4 1 (1.92%) HTTP
4 1 (1.92%) Intranet
4 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.92%) LAN
4 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.92%) Metadata
2 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.38%) Banking
4 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 7 (13.46%) Electronics
5 7 (13.46%) Manufacturing
5 7 (13.46%) Marketing
5 7 (13.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Consultant
2 8 (15.38%) Security Consultant
3 7 (13.46%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Support Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Security Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Cloud Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Support
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Operations Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) RESTful
2 4 (7.69%) Hugging Face
2 4 (7.69%) LangChain
2 4 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.85%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.92%) CAML
4 1 (1.92%) JSON
4 1 (1.92%) Kafka
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.92%) SAML
4 1 (1.92%) XML
4 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (36.54%) Security Posture
2 12 (23.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 5 (9.62%) PKI
5 4 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.85%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.85%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.92%) IoT
8 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.92%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Windows
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (51.92%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (48.08%) Incident Response
3 20 (38.46%) SIEM
3 20 (38.46%) Threat Intelligence
4 18 (34.62%) Threat Detection
5 16 (30.77%) Analytics
5 16 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 15 (28.85%) Security Operations
7 14 (26.92%) Penetration Testing
7 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 13 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
9 12 (23.08%) DevOps
9 12 (23.08%) Use Case
10 10 (19.23%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 8 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (15.38%) Change Management
12 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
12 7 (13.46%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) PowerShell
2 13 (25.00%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) Python
4 8 (15.38%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) Bicep
5 1 (1.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Degree
2 14 (26.92%) CISSP
2 14 (26.92%) CompTIA Security+
3 10 (19.23%) Azure Certification
4 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 7 (13.46%) CISM
6 7 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.92%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (7.69%) GDPR
3 4 (7.69%) NIST
3 4 (7.69%) SLA
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) SCOM
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 40 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Splunk
3 7 (13.46%) SAP
4 2 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Carbon Black
5 1 (1.92%) Confluent
5 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.92%) Skytap
5 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds