[postgis-users] PostGIS Jobs - UK, Worldwide

[lexner at gmail.com]

Hi,

As a GIS industry newcomer, I'm in process of prioritizing my research 
steps, selecting tools and technologies that would be mostly essential 
and relevant for future job search.

Concerning client software it is quite simple - without ArcGIS you'll 
definitely would be out of range. But server mapping has several 
possibilities - whether to focus on spatial databases - mostly Oracle 
Spatial or PostGIS, or to look for server middleware like 
GeoServer\MapServer or Oracle MapViewwer. I'm from Oracle space, so 
their products are mostly familiar to me.

I like PostGIS for its simplicity, free availability and great community 
support. I've already made some demo stands with uDig\qgis with PostGIS 
backend and tuned GeoServer to work with PostGIS layers. But the 
question is - are there serious business demand for OpenGIS profies? 
monster.co.uk, reed.co.uk and gis-jobs.co.uk return no (zero) jobs with 
postgis keyword.

What whould you suggest?

Thanks and best regards,
Alex