Artificial Intelligence Architect Contracts in Berkshire

AI Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median AI Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 103 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 16 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.32% 0.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £504 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £700 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,118 1,665 1,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 92.14% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 883 1,113
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £681 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 98 61
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.68 £17.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £48.24 £24.50
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.60 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +8.29% +152.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.40 £90.00 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +136.13%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in Berkshire

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in Berkshire

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Reading +43 13 £516 -26.25% 2
Wokingham - 3 £625 -
Artificial Intelligence Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 2025, 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 across the Berkshire region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) LLM
4 5 (31.25%) EU AI Act
4 5 (31.25%) PyTorch
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) GDPR
4 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (31.25%) TensorFlow
4 5 (31.25%) Python
5 4 (25.00%) C++
5 4 (25.00%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Git
5 4 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (25.00%) R
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) MLOps
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) JAX
5 4 (25.00%) Google JAX
6 3 (18.75%) Sentiment Analysis

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.25%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) PyTorch
1 5 (31.25%) TensorFlow
2 4 (25.00%) Google JAX
2 4 (25.00%) JAX
2 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) LLM
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) MLOps
5 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
6 3 (18.75%) Sentiment Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) C++
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) R
3 3 (18.75%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PhD
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) EU AI Act
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (18.75%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Kubeflow
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) OpenAI
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft