Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in the South West

AI Architect
England > South West

The median AI Architect daily rate in the South West is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.052% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £700 £900
% change year-on-year -14.29% -22.22% +49.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,713 2,453 3,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.94% 92.32% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 1,497 2,179
10th Percentile £224 £225 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £640
90th Percentile £706 £700 £714
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 270 281
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.83 £18.09
25th Percentile £17.96 £39.41 £39.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £64.38 £72.50 £70.65
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the South West

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Bristol - 1 £700 - 4
Artificial Intelligence Architect
England

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 9 September 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 West region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry