Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends in London

AI Architect
England > London

The median AI Architect salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 417 -
Rank change year-on-year +59 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 16 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.071% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.077% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile - £63,500 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 -
90th Percentile £101,500 £100,500 -
England median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -10.53% +2.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,862 14,378 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.68% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,531 8,295 13,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in London

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies in London

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in London

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +39 2 £80,000 -20.00% 3
Artificial Intelligence Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Artificial Intelligence Architect 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 permanent job ads across the London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) AI
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Information Security
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 5 (31.25%) Thought Leadership
5 4 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Databricks
5 4 (25.00%) dbt
5 4 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) GitHub
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (25.00%) MLflow
5 4 (25.00%) MLOps
5 4 (25.00%) PhD
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Telehealth

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) GCP
2 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 4 (25.00%) dbt
2 4 (25.00%) GitHub
2 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 2 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 11 (68.75%) Law
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Games
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) NVMe
2 3 (18.75%) PCIe
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) AI
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) Information Security
3 5 (31.25%) SDLC
3 5 (31.25%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) MLOps
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Telehealth
4 4 (25.00%) Use Case
5 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (25.00%) PhD
2 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) GPFS
1 3 (18.75%) Lustre
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (18.75%) NVIDIA