Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 666 788
Rank change year-on-year +128 +122 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 254 26 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.052% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.058% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 139 9 6
10th Percentile £71,349 £62,250 £94,375
25th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £103,438
90th Percentile £103,200 £102,750 £109,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £73,750 -
% change year-on-year +11.86% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 101,050 44,873 78,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.93% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,068 26,506 52,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -4.00% -6.54%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +62 185 £99,250 +10.28% 52
UK excluding London +24 122 £82,500 +11.86% 16
London +28 101 £100,000 +5.26% 41
Work from Home +24 53 £100,000 +21.21% 21
North of England - 36 £85,000 - 4
Scotland - 33 £74,830 - 4
North West - 31 £80,000 - 4
Midlands -10 18 £80,000 +8.47% 2
West Midlands -12 18 £80,000 +8.47% 1
South West - 16 £100,000 -
East of England - 6 £100,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £74,830 - 1
Wales - 5 £80,000 -
North East - 5 £85,000 -
South East - 3 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 213 (83.86%) AI
2 85 (33.46%) Generative AI
3 54 (21.26%) LLM
4 45 (17.72%) Machine Learning
5 35 (13.78%) AWS
6 32 (12.60%) Azure
7 31 (12.20%) AI Transformation
8 29 (11.42%) Roadmaps
9 28 (11.02%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 27 (10.63%) Python
11 24 (9.45%) Analytics
11 24 (9.45%) Microsoft
12 22 (8.66%) OpenAI
12 22 (8.66%) Security Cleared
13 21 (8.27%) GCP
14 19 (7.48%) Data Transformation
14 19 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (6.69%) Observability
16 16 (6.30%) CI/CD
16 16 (6.30%) Prompt Engineering
16 16 (6.30%) Software Engineering
17 15 (5.91%) Agile
17 15 (5.91%) Technical Architecture
17 15 (5.91%) Technical Leadership
18 14 (5.51%) Open Source
18 14 (5.51%) SC Cleared
19 13 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
19 13 (5.12%) MLOps
19 13 (5.12%) Prototyping
19 13 (5.12%) Use Case

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 3 (1.18%) SAS
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.78%) AWS
2 32 (12.60%) Azure
3 21 (8.27%) GCP
4 11 (4.33%) dbt
5 10 (3.94%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.94%) Serverless
6 5 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.57%) Azure AI
7 4 (1.57%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (0.79%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (0.79%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.79%) n8n
9 2 (0.79%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.79%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.33%) Broadband
2 2 (0.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.33%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.97%) Pinecone
3 5 (1.97%) Weaviate
4 2 (0.79%) Db2
4 2 (0.79%) Power BI
4 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.39%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.39%) Metadata
5 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 69 (27.17%) Finance
2 28 (11.02%) Banking
3 25 (9.84%) Social Skills
4 14 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.94%) Law
6 8 (3.15%) Games
7 5 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.18%) Billing
8 3 (1.18%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.18%) Public Speaking
8 3 (1.18%) Retail
9 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.79%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Military
9 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.39%) Front Office
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.15%) LangChain
2 7 (2.76%) PyTorch
2 7 (2.76%) TensorFlow
3 6 (2.36%) RESTful
4 5 (1.97%) Faiss
4 5 (1.97%) LangGraph
4 5 (1.97%) LlamaIndex
4 5 (1.97%) Model Context Protocol
5 4 (1.57%) CrewAI
5 4 (1.57%) Hugging Face
6 3 (1.18%) A2A Protocol
6 3 (1.18%) Node.js
6 3 (1.18%) REST
6 3 (1.18%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (0.79%) Terraform
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.39%) NLTK
8 1 (0.39%) pgvector
8 1 (0.39%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.39%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.42%) AI Agents
2 15 (5.91%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.15%) Low-Code
3 8 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
4 7 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Blog
7 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.79%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.39%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.39%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.39%) Life Science
8 1 (0.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.57%) Windows
2 2 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (83.86%) AI
2 85 (33.46%) Generative AI
3 54 (21.26%) LLM
4 45 (17.72%) Machine Learning
5 31 (12.20%) AI Transformation
6 29 (11.42%) Roadmaps
7 28 (11.02%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 24 (9.45%) Analytics
9 19 (7.48%) Data Transformation
9 19 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (6.69%) Observability
11 16 (6.30%) CI/CD
11 16 (6.30%) Prompt Engineering
11 16 (6.30%) Software Engineering
12 15 (5.91%) Agile
12 15 (5.91%) Technical Architecture
12 15 (5.91%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (5.51%) Open Source
14 13 (5.12%) Use Case
14 13 (5.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.63%) Python
2 8 (3.15%) Go
3 5 (1.97%) C#
3 5 (1.97%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.97%) SQL
4 4 (1.57%) Java
5 3 (1.18%) R
6 2 (0.79%) C++
6 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (8.66%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.79%) Degree
5 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.97%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.57%) QA
3 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 24 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.66%) OpenAI
3 9 (3.54%) Google
4 3 (1.18%) Avaya
4 3 (1.18%) Cisco
4 3 (1.18%) Genesys
4 3 (1.18%) Oracle
5 2 (0.79%) Databricks
6 1 (0.39%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.39%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.39%) Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Informatica
6 1 (0.39%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.39%) SAP
6 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow