Artificial Intelligence Architect Contracts in the North of England

AI Architect
England > North of England

The median AI Architect daily rate in the North of England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 177 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.079% 0.022% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.023% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £794 - -
90th Percentile £828 - -
England median daily rate £600 £688 £1,100
% change year-on-year -12.73% -37.50% +82.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,529 4,271 5,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 92.41% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 2,643 3,557
10th Percentile £254 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £386 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -3.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £655 £680
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 382 194
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.45 £14.58
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.03 £17.47
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +10.53% +9.76%
75th Percentile £47.12 £47.88 £43.39
90th Percentile £75.24 £68.63 £53.24
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
North West - 3 £725 - 7
Artificial Intelligence Architect
England

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Artificial Intelligence Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Foundry
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (33.33%) Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft