Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

AI Architect
England > West Midlands

The median AI Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.12% - 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £625 £600 £688
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% -23.61%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,237 1,501 1,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 90.86% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,012 950 1,183
10th Percentile £325 £224 £250
25th Percentile £410 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £650 £712
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 117 82
10th Percentile £14.88 £12.62 £12.77
25th Percentile £20.55 £14.00 £14.93
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.34 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +33.53% +24.25% -2.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £69.78 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 4 £550 - 2
Artificial Intelligence Architect
England

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 August 2026, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) AMQP
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Twin
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Edge AI
3 1 (25.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Modbus
3 1 (25.00%) MQTT
3 1 (25.00%) OpenVPN
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) AMQP
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (25.00%) Modbus
1 1 (25.00%) MQTT
1 1 (25.00%) OpenVPN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 4 (100.00%) Industry 4.0
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (50.00%) IoT
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Twin
3 1 (25.00%) Edge AI
3 1 (25.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Smart Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker