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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

observability

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 971 postings naming observability that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer53.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer27.3%
  3. 3AI Engineer4.8%
  4. 4Data Engineer4.8%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer2.7%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer2.4%
  7. 7Backend Engineer1.9%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer1.2%

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 = 106
10th
$148k
25th
$173k
Median
$203k
75th
$240k
90th
$280k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA24.7%
  2. 2Remote20.7%
  3. 3New York, NY13.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.9%
  5. 5Boston, MA2.9%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.4%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.4%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.3%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.