Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £98,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 655 899
Rank change year-on-year +63 +244 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 147 20 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.045% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.050% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 75 7 4
10th Percentile £72,500 £64,750 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,500 £80,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% -20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £105,750 £93,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 88,490 40,188 103,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.54% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 60,699 22,814 74,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 11 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 June 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 +23 121 £100,000 +25.00% 39
London +28 71 £100,000 +19.40% 27
UK excluding London +6 57 £100,000 +25.00% 21
Work from Home +31 27 £100,000 +35.59% 21
North West +17 17 £100,000 +25.00% 6
North of England -12 17 £100,000 +25.00% 7
South West - 14 £100,000 - 1
West Midlands - 13 £85,000 -
Midlands - 13 £85,000 -
Scotland - 10 - - 5
South East - 3 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 116 (78.91%) AI
2 55 (37.41%) Generative AI
3 38 (25.85%) Machine Learning
4 33 (22.45%) LLM
5 30 (20.41%) AWS
6 29 (19.73%) Azure
7 27 (18.37%) Python
8 20 (13.61%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.24%) GCP
9 18 (12.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 17 (11.56%) Analytics
11 16 (10.88%) AI Transformation
11 16 (10.88%) Software Engineering
12 15 (10.20%) MongoDB
12 15 (10.20%) Observability
13 14 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (8.16%) AIOps
14 12 (8.16%) CI/CD
15 11 (7.48%) Data Architecture
15 11 (7.48%) Data Modelling
15 11 (7.48%) Data Science
15 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
15 11 (7.48%) Validation
16 10 (6.80%) API Design
16 10 (6.80%) MLOps
16 10 (6.80%) Presales
16 10 (6.80%) Regulatory Compliance
16 10 (6.80%) Runbook
16 10 (6.80%) Test Automation
17 9 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement

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 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.41%) AWS
2 29 (19.73%) Azure
3 18 (12.24%) GCP
4 7 (4.76%) Serverless
5 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.72%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.04%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.36%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.36%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.68%) Google Gemini
9 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.20%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.40%) Redis
4 4 (2.72%) Pinecone
4 4 (2.72%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.36%) Db2
5 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.68%) Metadata
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 21 (14.29%) Finance
2 16 (10.88%) Law
3 12 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.48%) Banking
5 8 (5.44%) Games
6 5 (3.40%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.36%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.68%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.44%) LangChain
2 7 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 7 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 6 (4.08%) RESTful
4 5 (3.40%) LangGraph
4 5 (3.40%) LlamaIndex
5 4 (2.72%) CrewAI
5 4 (2.72%) Faiss
6 3 (2.04%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.36%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.36%) REST
7 2 (1.36%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (0.68%) A2A Protocol
8 1 (0.68%) Kafka
8 1 (0.68%) NLTK
8 1 (0.68%) Node.js
8 1 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.68%) pgvector
8 1 (0.68%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.68%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) AI Agents
1 18 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.44%) Low-Code
2 8 (5.44%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.36%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (0.68%) Life Science
5 1 (0.68%) Stable Diffusion
5 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Linux
1 2 (1.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (78.91%) AI
2 55 (37.41%) Generative AI
3 38 (25.85%) Machine Learning
4 33 (22.45%) LLM
5 20 (13.61%) Roadmaps
6 18 (12.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 17 (11.56%) Analytics
8 16 (10.88%) AI Transformation
8 16 (10.88%) Software Engineering
9 15 (10.20%) Observability
10 14 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (8.16%) AIOps
11 12 (8.16%) CI/CD
12 11 (7.48%) Data Architecture
12 11 (7.48%) Data Modelling
12 11 (7.48%) Data Science
12 11 (7.48%) Validation
13 10 (6.80%) Regulatory Compliance
13 10 (6.80%) Runbook
13 10 (6.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.37%) Python
2 8 (5.44%) Go
3 5 (3.40%) C#
3 5 (3.40%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.40%) SQL
4 3 (2.04%) Java
4 3 (2.04%) R
5 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.68%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (4.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.04%) CISSP
2 3 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.68%) Degree
4 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.68%) PhD
4 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.36%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) GRC
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.08%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.68%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.72%) Google
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) Avaya
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco
5 1 (0.68%) Databricks
5 1 (0.68%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.68%) Genesys
5 1 (0.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.68%) Informatica
5 1 (0.68%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.68%) SAP