Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 552 598
Rank change year-on-year +53 +46 +208
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 82 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.035% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.037% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 7 11
10th Percentile £504 £531 £625
25th Percentile £537 £631 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £809
90th Percentile £790 £853 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £521 £650
% change year-on-year +5.67% -19.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.11 - -
Median hourly rate £61.23 - -
75th Percentile £64.34 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.23 - -

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 33,137 32,079 41,606
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,987 19,722 27,981
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 1,044 1,467
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.28 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 13 Contract Job 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 14 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
England +19 66 £650 -10.34% 75
UK excluding London -8 41 £550 +5.67% 73
London +21 29 £662 -8.69% 8
Work from Home +40 24 £688 +75.83% 2
South East +22 21 £525 - 16
North of England -28 10 £725 - 15
North West - 6 £725 - 7
Scotland +7 5 £479 +22.38% 3
Yorkshire -41 4 £538 - 7
East of England - 3 £550 - 12
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 6
Midlands - 1 £575 - 17
South West - 1 £700 - 8

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 76 (92.68%) AI
2 52 (63.41%) Machine Learning
3 35 (42.68%) Azure
3 35 (42.68%) LLM
4 31 (37.80%) AWS
5 27 (32.93%) Generative AI
5 27 (32.93%) Python
6 21 (25.61%) Data Science
7 20 (24.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 17 (20.73%) OpenAI
8 17 (20.73%) Roadmaps
9 16 (19.51%) GCP
9 16 (19.51%) Natural Language Processing
10 15 (18.29%) Analytics
10 15 (18.29%) CI/CD
10 15 (18.29%) MLOps
10 15 (18.29%) PyTorch
10 15 (18.29%) TensorFlow
10 15 (18.29%) Use Case
11 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (17.07%) Security Architecture
12 13 (15.85%) IT Strategy
12 13 (15.85%) Technology Strategy
13 12 (14.63%) Threat Modelling
14 11 (13.41%) Data Protection
14 11 (13.41%) Java
14 11 (13.41%) Kubernetes
14 11 (13.41%) Regulatory Compliance
15 10 (12.20%) Data Security
15 10 (12.20%) EU AI Act

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.10%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.68%) Azure
2 31 (37.80%) AWS
3 16 (19.51%) GCP
4 8 (9.76%) Amazon Bedrock
5 7 (8.54%) Azure AI
6 5 (6.10%) Vertex AI
7 4 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (4.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.66%) Google Gemini
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.44%) Serverless
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.66%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.44%) Redis
4 1 (1.22%) Big Data
4 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) MLflow
2 4 (4.88%) Git
3 3 (3.66%) GitLab
4 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Legal
4 7 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Banking
5 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.22%) Electronics
8 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) PyTorch
1 15 (18.29%) TensorFlow
2 9 (10.98%) CrewAI
3 8 (9.76%) LangGraph
3 8 (9.76%) scikit-learn
4 4 (4.88%) Google JAX
4 4 (4.88%) JAX
5 3 (3.66%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.66%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.66%) PySpark
5 3 (3.66%) React
5 3 (3.66%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (3.66%) Vue
6 2 (2.44%) LangChain
6 2 (2.44%) OAuth
6 2 (2.44%) pgvector
7 1 (1.22%) Keras
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) AI Agents
2 7 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.54%) Security Posture
2 7 (8.54%) Taxonomies
3 6 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.44%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (2.44%) NVMe
7 2 (2.44%) PCIe
8 1 (1.22%) CUDA
8 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.22%) SCADA
8 1 (1.22%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (92.68%) AI
2 52 (63.41%) Machine Learning
3 35 (42.68%) LLM
4 27 (32.93%) Generative AI
5 21 (25.61%) Data Science
6 20 (24.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 17 (20.73%) Roadmaps
8 16 (19.51%) Natural Language Processing
9 15 (18.29%) Analytics
9 15 (18.29%) CI/CD
9 15 (18.29%) MLOps
9 15 (18.29%) Use Case
10 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (17.07%) Security Architecture
11 13 (15.85%) IT Strategy
11 13 (15.85%) Technology Strategy
12 12 (14.63%) Threat Modelling
13 11 (13.41%) Data Protection
13 11 (13.41%) Regulatory Compliance
14 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.93%) Python
2 11 (13.41%) Java
3 7 (8.54%) C++
4 6 (7.32%) R
5 3 (3.66%) C
5 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.22%) C#
6 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.10%) Degree
2 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.88%) MCP
2 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) EU AI Act
2 5 (6.10%) GDPR
3 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.66%) NIST
5 2 (2.44%) NCSC
6 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) GPFS
2 2 (2.44%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.22%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) OpenAI
2 10 (12.20%) Google
2 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.76%) Databricks
4 6 (7.32%) Salesforce
5 5 (6.10%) Foundry
6 4 (4.88%) NVIDIA
6 4 (4.88%) SAP
7 1 (1.22%) CrowdStrike