3D Printing Contract Job Trends in Scotland

3D Printer
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 3D Printing in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 3D Printing over the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 3D Printing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.062% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £330 - -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

3D Printing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 633 602 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.44% 33.86% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 321 548
10th Percentile £181 £192 £250
25th Percentile £350 £356 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £588
90th Percentile £588 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £512 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.76% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 28 26
10th Percentile £15.03 £15.00 £13.54
25th Percentile £16.51 £19.32 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -15.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £24.18 £54.38
90th Percentile £68.00 £33.08 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £26.89 £37.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.29% -14.46% +48.61%

3D Printing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 3D Printing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

3D Printing job vacancy trend in Scotland

3D Printing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3D Printing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 -
3D Printing
UK

3D Printing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Enablement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco