Artificial Intelligence Architect Contracts in the South East

AI Architect
England > South East

The median AI Architect daily rate in the South East is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 191 -
Rank change year-on-year +46 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 16 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.093% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £504 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
England median daily rate £600 £700 £900
% change year-on-year -14.29% -22.22% +49.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,090 4,956 5,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.40% 92.29% 94.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,998 2,978 3,818
10th Percentile £212 £255 £225
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £606
90th Percentile £663 £689 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 449 251
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.75 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.90 £55.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.58% +11.60% +134.25%
75th Percentile £60.56 £70.39 £65.01
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.17 £42.50 £44.11
% change year-on-year -36.08% -3.65% +72.98%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the South East

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the South East

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 22 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
Berkshire +34 16 £525 -25.00% 2
Thames Valley +31 16 £525 -25.00% 2
Artificial Intelligence Architect
England

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 22 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 South East region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) LLM
4 5 (31.25%) EU AI Act
4 5 (31.25%) PyTorch
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) GDPR
4 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (31.25%) TensorFlow
4 5 (31.25%) Python
5 4 (25.00%) C++
5 4 (25.00%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Git
5 4 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (25.00%) R
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) MLOps
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) JAX
5 4 (25.00%) Google JAX
6 3 (18.75%) Sentiment Analysis

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.25%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) PyTorch
1 5 (31.25%) TensorFlow
2 4 (25.00%) Google JAX
2 4 (25.00%) JAX
2 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) LLM
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) MLOps
5 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
6 3 (18.75%) Sentiment Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) C++
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) R
3 3 (18.75%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PhD
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) EU AI Act
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (18.75%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Kubeflow
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) OpenAI
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft