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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

observability

1,933 live US technical postings name observability in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,933 postings naming observability that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer56.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer23.4%
  3. 3AI Engineer5.1%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer3.9%
  5. 5Data Engineer3.9%
  6. 6Backend Engineer3.4%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.9%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where observability is named
n = 1,139
10th
$150k
25th
$175k
Median
$203k
75th
$233k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21%
  2. 2Remote17.5%
  3. 3New York, NY11.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.8%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.1%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.