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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

observability

1,823 live US technical postings name observability in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,823 postings naming observability that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer54.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer25.2%
  3. 3AI Engineer5.2%
  4. 4Data Engineer4.6%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer3.5%
  6. 6Backend Engineer3.2%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.7%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer1.3%

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 = 1,055
10th
$150k
25th
$173k
Median
$202k
75th
$235k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA20.9%
  2. 2Remote17.9%
  3. 3New York, NY12.5%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.3%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.1%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA1.7%
  8. 8Washington, DC1.7%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.