Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

opentelemetry

295 live US technical postings name opentelemetry 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 295 postings naming opentelemetry that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer46.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer41.4%
  3. 3Backend Engineer4.4%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer3.1%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.4%
  6. 6Data 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 opentelemetry is named
n = 167
10th
$148k
25th
$170k
Median
$195k
75th
$226k
90th
$263k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote19.7%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA17.6%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA12.5%
  4. 4New York, NY9.5%
  5. 5Chicago, IL2.7%
  6. 6Denver, CO2%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2%
  8. 8Atlanta, GA1.7%

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.