CUA40725 is the nationally recognised Certificate IV behind visual arts and crafts professionals work. It has been the current version on the national register since 2025, when it replaced CUA40720. About 5 visual arts and crafts professionals jobs were advertised in June 2026, up 23.1% on a year earlier.
The signals behind the Certificate IV in Design are mixed, and both sides are worth weighing. Employment is projected to grow through 2035 and job ads in June 2026 were up 23.1% on a year earlier. The official shortage list does not rate its occupations in shortage. These are official statistics, not a promise about your result.
Employers are posting more visual arts and crafts professionals jobs than a year ago. About 5 visual arts and crafts professionals jobs were advertised online in June 2026, up 23.1% on a year earlier. Over the last 12 months there were about 100 job ads, while 60 people were training in the qualification nationally (2025). Ads show the market. Enrolments show the pipeline. Neither is a job promise.
Australia's official shortage list rates painter (visual arts)s, potter or ceramic artists, sculptors and visual arts and crafts professionals necs as not in shortage. The 2025 Occupation Shortage List rates Painter (Visual Arts), Potter or Ceramic Artist, Sculptor and Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals nec as not in shortage.
Visual arts and crafts professionals jobs are projected to grow. Jobs and Skills Australia projections put these occupations at 12,283 workers in May 2025, 12,971 by May 2030 (up 5.6%) and 13,729 by May 2035 (up 11.8%).
National enrolment data for CUA40725 starts in 2025: 60 people enrolled that year. There is no earlier year to compare yet.
The register and the national framework set some of this. Providers set the rest.
State funding for CUA40725 is being verified against official program lists.
Eligibility and student contributions vary by program and provider. The official state listing is the source of truth. In a subsidised place the government pays most of the tuition and you pay a co-contribution set by the program and provider.
The Certificate IV in Design is 15 units: 7 core, plus 8 electives chosen from 58 options on the register. Prerequisites apply to Two of them, marked below.
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Browse coursesGet Course maps CUA40725 to its occupations using the register’s own outcome wording, shown with ANZSCO codes (here, 2114) so the mapping can be checked. Job advertisement counts come from the Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index and count online ads, not vacancies filled. Enrolment counts come from NCVER Total VET Activity and count people in training, not completions. Funding rows appear only after verification against the official state program list. Source vintages: NCVER Total VET Activity 2025 collection; register training.gov.au, synced 10 September 2026; Occupation Shortage List 2025 assessment; employment projections May 2025 to May 2035 release; Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index latest month June 2026; register synced 18 Sept 2026. Page last updated 19 Sept 2026.