Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AI Architect
North West > Manchester

The median AI Architect daily rate in Manchester is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
North West median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,696 850 1,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.79% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 592 955
10th Percentile £313 £305 £313
25th Percentile £400 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £580 £545 £575
90th Percentile £675 £665 £683
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £476
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.51% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 46 86
10th Percentile £22.50 - £12.12
25th Percentile £33.64 £13.00 £13.36
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +179.90% -27.22% +32.66%
75th Percentile £77.00 £64.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.13 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.90
% change year-on-year +73.91% -12.60% +16.07%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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 Manchester.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 June 2026. 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
Bolton - 2 £650 -
Artificial Intelligence Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 Manchester region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Foundry
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Search
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Search
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI