Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in London

AI Architect
England > London

The median AI Architect daily rate in London is £662, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 373 392
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 +175
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 29 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.052% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.056% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 9
10th Percentile £601 - £650
25th Percentile £650 £638 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% -9.38% +3.23%
75th Percentile £697 £788 £819
90th Percentile £749 £885 £860
England median daily rate £650 £725 £775
% change year-on-year -10.34% -6.45% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,157 14,282 17,864
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 9,248 12,923
10th Percentile £340 £338 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.65 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £56.63 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in London

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in London

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London - 6 £675 -
West London - 1 £662 -
Artificial Intelligence Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) AI
2 21 (72.41%) Machine Learning
3 17 (58.62%) AWS
3 17 (58.62%) Azure
4 16 (55.17%) LLM
5 14 (48.28%) Generative AI
6 12 (41.38%) GCP
7 10 (34.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 8 (27.59%) Python
8 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
8 8 (27.59%) Security Architecture
9 7 (24.14%) IT Strategy
9 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
9 7 (24.14%) Technology Strategy
10 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
10 6 (20.69%) Regulatory Compliance
10 6 (20.69%) Risk Management
10 6 (20.69%) Threat Modelling
11 5 (17.24%) Attestation
11 5 (17.24%) Cyber Resilience
11 5 (17.24%) Data Science
11 5 (17.24%) Data Security
11 5 (17.24%) Databricks
11 5 (17.24%) EU AI Act
11 5 (17.24%) Google
11 5 (17.24%) OpenAI
12 4 (13.79%) Azure AI
12 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
12 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
12 4 (13.79%) MLOps

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (10.34%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) GCP
3 4 (13.79%) Azure AI
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) OCI
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Legal
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Electronics
4 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Hugging Face
2 2 (6.90%) CrewAI
2 2 (6.90%) LangGraph
2 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Keras
3 1 (3.45%) LangChain
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
1 6 (20.69%) Taxonomies
2 5 (17.24%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.34%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Contract for Difference
5 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) NVMe
5 1 (3.45%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) AI
2 21 (72.41%) Machine Learning
3 16 (55.17%) LLM
4 14 (48.28%) Generative AI
5 10 (34.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
6 8 (27.59%) Security Architecture
7 7 (24.14%) IT Strategy
7 7 (24.14%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
8 6 (20.69%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (20.69%) Risk Management
8 6 (20.69%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (17.24%) Attestation
9 5 (17.24%) Cyber Resilience
9 5 (17.24%) Data Science
9 5 (17.24%) Data Security
10 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
10 4 (13.79%) MLOps
10 4 (13.79%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) C#
2 1 (3.45%) C++
2 1 (3.45%) Java
2 1 (3.45%) R
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) EU AI Act
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) GPFS
1 1 (3.45%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Databricks
2 5 (17.24%) Google
2 5 (17.24%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.90%) Foundry
4 1 (3.45%) SAP