3D Printing Contract Job Trends in Wales

3D Printer
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 3D Printing in contract job vacancies in Wales. 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 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 3D Printing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.47% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% - -
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 median daily rate £335 - -

All Generic Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 135 151 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 31.54% 33.04% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 93 125
10th Percentile £170 £134 £169
25th Percentile £226 £178 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £335 £340
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -1.47% -24.44%
75th Percentile £438 £550 £575
90th Percentile £528 £698 £670
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 9
10th Percentile £13.08 £20.07 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -36.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £27.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £32.63 £45.52 £55.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £43.92
% change year-on-year -31.98% -8.93% +62.79%

3D Printing
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region 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
South Wales - 2 £335 - 1
3D Printing
UK

3D Printing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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