3D Printing Contract Job Trends in South Wales

3D Printer
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 3D Printing in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 3D Printing over the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 3D Printing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
75th Percentile £340 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £335 - -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 113 127 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 35.76% 33.87% 37.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 80 109
10th Percentile £188 £144 £164
25th Percentile £253 £210 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +13.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £438 £576 £600
90th Percentile £525 £700 £675
Wales median daily rate £309 £335 £340
% change year-on-year -7.84% -1.47% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 9
10th Percentile £13.08 £21.60 £16.00
25th Percentile £14.15 £24.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -36.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £26.42 £27.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £63.00 £51.13 £55.50
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.92% -36.00% +122.22%

3D Printing
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff - 2 £335 - 1
3D Printing
Wales

3D Printing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Modbus
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Enablement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco