Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in Leeds

AI Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median AI Architect daily rate in Leeds is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.66% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 1,010 576 665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 97.46% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 383 434
10th Percentile £363 £313 £352
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 30
10th Percentile £18.39 £25.15 £17.89
25th Percentile £25.88 £25.38 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.25 £29.56 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +22.23% +27.26%
75th Percentile £35.00 £50.48 £46.25
90th Percentile - £79.33 £48.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.89 £77.50 £24.59
% change year-on-year -66.60% +215.17% +29.42%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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 Leeds.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in Leeds

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 5 September 2026, 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 Leeds region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Foundry
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) LangGraph
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) MLOps
3 2 (28.57%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (28.57%) Multi-Agent System
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 1 (14.29%) Model Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Validation

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LangGraph
1 2 (28.57%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) AI Agents
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) MLOps
3 2 (28.57%) Multi-Agent System
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Foundry
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
Artificial Intelligence Architect jobs