Artificial Intelligence Architect Contracts

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
26 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 706 825
Rank change year-on-year +139 +119 -120
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 13 8 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.014% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.015% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 32
10th Percentile £623 £840 -
25th Percentile £638 £888 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £1,100 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +83.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 - £700
90th Percentile £945 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £575

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,595 53,688 83,596
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,759 37,488 58,802
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,752 1,485 1,990
10th Percentile £12.79 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.26%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.94 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 May 2024. 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
Work from Home +122 8 £700 -36.36% 7
England +110 8 £700 -36.36% 13
UK excluding London - 7 £700 - 8
South East - 4 £663 - 8
West Midlands - 3 £1,000 -
Midlands - 3 £1,000 -
London +91 1 - - 4

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 May 2024, Artificial Intelligence Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Digital Twin
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) GDPR
3 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Use Case
3 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
3 3 (23.08%) Reference Data
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) C
4 2 (15.38%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) Big Data
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Deep Learning
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) CTI
1 1 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) OLAP
2 1 (7.69%) OLTP
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) Google JAX
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Reference Data
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) IVR
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Digital Twin
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Use Case
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) DataOps
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) LLM
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) C
2 2 (15.38%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CSSLP
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Avaya
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco
1 1 (7.69%) Genesys
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) IBM
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
16 Artificial Intelligence Architect jobs Nationwide