SHB60221 is the nationally recognised Advanced Diploma of Skin Therapy. It prepares you for work as a beauty therapist. It is current on the national register, with no earlier version recorded. Employers posted about 340 beauty therapist jobs in June 2026, down 3.6% on a year earlier.
The signals behind the Advanced Diploma of Skin Therapy are mixed, and both sides are worth weighing. Beauty therapists are in national shortage and employment is projected to grow through 2035. Enrolments are falling. 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 30 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%).
Enrolments in the Advanced Diploma of Skin Therapy are dropping fast. Across Australia, 65 people enrolled in 2024. In 2025 it was 30, down 53.8% in a year. National data for SHB60221 starts in 2023.
The register and the national framework set some of this. Providers set the rest.
State funding for SHB60221 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.
No Get Course partner currently lists this qualification. Check the national register for organisations approved to deliver it, and remember that approval to deliver is a regulatory fact, not a recommendation. You can browse live courses from our partners and enquire today.
Browse coursesGet Course maps SHB60221 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. Funding rows appear only after verification against the official state program list. Source vintages: Occupation Shortage List 2025 assessment; employment projections May 2025 to May 2035 release; Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index latest month June 2026; NCVER Total VET Activity 2025 collection; register training.gov.au, synced 29 August 2026; register synced 29 Aug 2026. Page last updated 30 Aug 2026.