SHB30321 is the nationally recognised Certificate III in Nail Technology. It prepares you for work as a beauty therapist. It has been the current version on the national register since 2021, when it replaced SHB30315. Employers posted about 340 beauty therapist jobs in June 2026, down 3.6% on a year earlier.
The independent signals behind the Certificate III in Nail Technology line up. Beauty therapists are in national shortage and employment is projected to grow through 2035. These are official statistics, not a promise about your result.
Job ads for beauty therapists are holding steady. About 340 beauty therapist jobs were advertised online in June 2026, down 3.6% on a year earlier. Over the last 12 months there were about 4,400 job ads, while 1,750 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 beauty therapists as in shortage. The 2025 Occupation Shortage List rates Beauty Therapist as in national shortage.
Beauty therapist jobs are projected to grow. Jobs and Skills Australia projections put these occupations at 39,264 workers in May 2025, 40,927 by May 2030 (up 4.2%) and 43,410 by May 2035 (up 10.6%).
Certificate III in Nail Technology graduates do worse than is typical at Certificate III level. In the 2025 NCVER Student Outcomes survey, 75.7% were employed or in further study after training. The typical Certificate III result is 88%, across 105 qualifications. Median income after training was $37,300, against $54,000 typical. 81.9% were satisfied with the training, against 90.6% typical. Income here is the survey median about six months after training. It includes part-time work, so it is not the full-time award rate.
Enrolments in the Certificate III in Nail Technology are steady. Across Australia, 1,800 people enrolled in 2024. In 2025 it was 1,750, down 2.8% in a year. National data for SHB30321 starts in 2022.
The register and the national framework set some of this. Providers set the rest.
State funding for SHB30321 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 III in Nail Technology is 15 units: 10 core, plus 5 electives chosen from 8 options on the register. Prerequisites apply to Four of them, marked below.
Providers listed on Get Course offering this qualification or its pathway. Enquire and the provider confirms details directly.
Get Course maps SHB30321 to its occupations using the register’s own outcome wording, shown with ANZSCO codes (here, 4511) 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. Outcome benchmarks marked “typical” are medians computed by Get Course across all Certificate IIIs in the same NCVER collection; they are derived figures, not official NCVER benchmarks. Funding rows appear only after verification against the official state program list. Source vintages: register training.gov.au, synced 6 September 2026; Occupation Shortage List 2025 assessment; NCVER Student Outcomes survey 2025 survey; Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index latest month June 2026; NCVER Total VET Activity 2025 collection; employment projections May 2025 to May 2035 release; register synced 18 Sept 2026. Page last updated 19 Sept 2026.