Artificial Intelligence Architect Contracts

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 574 713
Rank change year-on-year +66 +139 +98
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 12 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.018% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.020% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £400 £618 £865
25th Percentile £475 £625 £925
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £1,100
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -38.64% +57.14%
75th Percentile £625 £906 -
90th Percentile £657 £1,023 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £813 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +65 12 £600 -26.15% 34
London - 8 £575 - 20
UK excluding London +63 4 £625 -23.08% 19
South East +47 3 £625 - 7
Work from Home +37 1 £400 -52.24% 25
Midlands +21 1 £400 -60.00% 1
West Midlands +13 1 £400 -60.00%

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (58.33%) Azure AI
4 6 (50.00%) OpenAI
4 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) Generative AI
5 5 (41.67%) LLM
6 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
7 3 (25.00%) Google
7 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (25.00%) AWS
7 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (25.00%) FMCG
7 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (25.00%) Sentiment Analysis
7 3 (25.00%) Data Science
8 2 (16.67%) LangChain
8 2 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 2 (16.67%) AI Agents
8 2 (16.67%) Vertex AI
8 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
8 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (16.67%) Chatbot

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure AI
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) Vertex AI
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) IBM Watson
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) Tableau
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LangChain
1 2 (16.67%) NumPy
1 2 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) FMCG
2 2 (16.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
3 5 (41.67%) Generative AI
3 5 (41.67%) LLM
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (25.00%) Sentiment Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (25.00%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) IBM