Artificial Intelligence Architect Contracts in England

AI Architect
UK > England

The median AI Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 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
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 530 633
Rank change year-on-year +60 +103 +134
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 19 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.024% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.026% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £400 £630 £935
25th Percentile £553 £656 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £1,100
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +82.57%
75th Percentile £619 £900 -
90th Percentile £633 £1,020 -
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £1,100
% change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +83.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,602 34,785 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.82% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,873 22,775 31,617
10th Percentile £290 £288 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.64% +2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 987 2,652 1,324
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.38
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £38.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% -14.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.29% -16.67% +80.00%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in England

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in England

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in England

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
London +69 14 £586 - 23
South East +51 4 £625 -5.66% 5
Midlands +15 1 £400 -60.00%
West Midlands +9 1 £400 -60.00%
Artificial Intelligence Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (94.74%) Azure
3 12 (63.16%) Machine Learning
3 12 (63.16%) Generative AI
4 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
5 10 (52.63%) LLM
6 9 (47.37%) OpenAI
7 8 (42.11%) AWS
8 7 (36.84%) Natural Language Processing
8 7 (36.84%) Google
8 7 (36.84%) Python
8 7 (36.84%) Azure AI
9 6 (31.58%) GCP
9 6 (31.58%) Databricks
9 6 (31.58%) Data Science
9 6 (31.58%) Analytics
10 4 (21.05%) Big Data
10 4 (21.05%) Open Source
10 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
10 4 (21.05%) Degree
10 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
10 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
10 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
10 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
10 4 (21.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 4 (21.05%) Conversational UI
10 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
10 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
11 3 (15.79%) GDPR

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (15.79%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) Azure AI
4 6 (31.58%) GCP
5 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (10.53%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
7 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
7 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
7 2 (10.53%) Vertex AI
8 1 (5.26%) GitHub
8 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (5.26%) Google Gemini
8 1 (5.26%) IBM Watson
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Big Data
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ERwin
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Publishing
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Hugging Face
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Keras
2 2 (10.53%) LangChain
2 2 (10.53%) NumPy
2 2 (10.53%) Pandas
2 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) AI Agents
1 3 (15.79%) FMCG
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (63.16%) Generative AI
2 12 (63.16%) Machine Learning
3 10 (52.63%) LLM
4 7 (36.84%) Natural Language Processing
5 6 (31.58%) Analytics
5 6 (31.58%) Data Science
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Conversational UI
6 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
6 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
6 4 (21.05%) Open Source
6 4 (21.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) SDLC
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) R
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) OpenAI
3 7 (36.84%) Google
4 6 (31.58%) Databricks
5 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (5.26%) IBM