Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in England

AI Architect
UK > England

The median AI Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 501 552
Rank change year-on-year +23 +51 +189
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 66 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.034% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.037% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 5 10
10th Percentile £504 - £608
25th Percentile £531 £638 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £775
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £700 £788 £814
90th Percentile £750 £885 £849
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £750
% change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% -3.23%

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 28,372 27,015 35,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,130 16,817 24,123
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 878 1,358
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in England

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies 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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +1 29 £662 -8.69% 13
South East +15 21 £525 - 17
North of England -33 10 £725 - 14
North West - 6 £725 - 6
Yorkshire -38 4 £538 - 7
East of England - 3 £550 - 10
South West - 1 £700 - 7
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 5
Midlands - 1 £575 - 13
Artificial Intelligence Architect
UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Artificial Intelligence Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 60 (90.91%) AI
2 41 (62.12%) Machine Learning
3 31 (46.97%) Azure
4 29 (43.94%) LLM
5 24 (36.36%) AWS
6 22 (33.33%) Generative AI
7 20 (30.30%) Python
8 16 (24.24%) Roadmaps
9 15 (22.73%) GCP
9 15 (22.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 14 (21.21%) OpenAI
10 14 (21.21%) Security Architecture
11 13 (19.70%) PyTorch
11 13 (19.70%) TensorFlow
12 12 (18.18%) Use Case
13 11 (16.67%) Data Protection
13 11 (16.67%) Data Science
13 11 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
14 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
14 10 (15.15%) EU AI Act
14 10 (15.15%) MLOps
15 9 (13.64%) Analytics
15 9 (13.64%) Google
15 9 (13.64%) IT Strategy
15 9 (13.64%) Natural Language Processing
15 9 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
15 9 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
16 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
16 8 (12.12%) Databricks
16 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.06%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) Azure
2 24 (36.36%) AWS
3 15 (22.73%) GCP
4 7 (10.61%) Azure AI
5 6 (9.09%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (7.58%) Vertex AI
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (1.52%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.52%) OCI
10 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.52%) Big Data
3 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) MLflow
2 4 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Finance
3 10 (15.15%) Legal
4 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Banking
5 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) PyTorch
1 13 (19.70%) TensorFlow
2 8 (12.12%) scikit-learn
3 4 (6.06%) CrewAI
3 4 (6.06%) Google JAX
3 4 (6.06%) JAX
4 3 (4.55%) Hugging Face
4 3 (4.55%) LangGraph
4 3 (4.55%) PySpark
4 3 (4.55%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (3.03%) OAuth
6 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.52%) Keras
6 1 (1.52%) LangChain
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.52%) Middleware
6 1 (1.52%) React
6 1 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Security Posture
2 6 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.09%) Taxonomies
3 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Contract for Difference
6 1 (1.52%) CUDA
6 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.52%) NVMe
6 1 (1.52%) PCIe
6 1 (1.52%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (90.91%) AI
2 41 (62.12%) Machine Learning
3 29 (43.94%) LLM
4 22 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 16 (24.24%) Roadmaps
6 15 (22.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 14 (21.21%) Security Architecture
8 12 (18.18%) Use Case
9 11 (16.67%) Data Protection
9 11 (16.67%) Data Science
9 11 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
10 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
10 10 (15.15%) MLOps
11 9 (13.64%) Analytics
11 9 (13.64%) IT Strategy
11 9 (13.64%) Natural Language Processing
11 9 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
11 9 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
12 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) Java
3 6 (9.09%) C++
3 6 (9.09%) R
4 3 (4.55%) C
5 1 (1.52%) C#
5 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.55%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) MCP
3 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) EU AI Act
2 5 (7.58%) GDPR
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.55%) NIST
5 2 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) GPFS
2 1 (1.52%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) OpenAI
2 9 (13.64%) Google
3 8 (12.12%) Databricks
3 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 5 (7.58%) Foundry
6 2 (3.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA
74 Artificial Intelligence Architect jobs in England