Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

AI Architect
England > Midlands

The median AI Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.032% - 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £653
25th Percentile £538 - £694
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £825
75th Percentile £613 - £994
90th Percentile - - £1,058
England median daily rate £650 £725 £800
% change year-on-year -10.34% -9.38% +3.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,825 2,155 2,398
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.12% 93.29% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,776 1,373 1,643
10th Percentile £213 £208 £213
25th Percentile £370 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 84 109
10th Percentile £13.83 £14.12 £14.23
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.71 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +18.55% +13.51%
75th Percentile £26.38 £30.83 £31.04
90th Percentile £35.10 £48.13 £67.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.57% -22.58% +39.02%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 4
Artificial Intelligence Architect
England

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 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 Midlands region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes