3D Printing Contract Job Trends

3D Printer
UK

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 3D Printing 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.049% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
75th Percentile £340 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,264 11,146 15,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.77% 30.70% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,544 6,604 10,175
10th Percentile £283 £275 £285
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 669 344 494
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £22.17 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% -8.93% +62.79%
75th Percentile £50.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.75 £42.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.06% -7.97% +102.88%

3D Printing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

3D Printing job vacancy trend in the UK

3D Printing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 3D Printing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 3D Printing

3D Printing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 3D Printing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 3D Printing

3D Printing
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London - 6 £335 - 17
North of England - 4 - -
North West - 4 - -
England - 4 - - 20
Wales - 2 £335 - 1

3D Printing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Resin
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (66.67%) PTC Creo
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) Modbus
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CAD
1 4 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 4 (66.67%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Enablement
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
3 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco