Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 649 772
Rank change year-on-year +128 +123 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 285 26 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.053% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.059% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 158 11 6
10th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £94,375
25th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £103,438
90th Percentile £107,500 £101,250 £109,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 -
% change year-on-year +3.03% - -

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 108,200 44,314 74,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 89.66% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 74,226 26,055 44,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 17 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 19 September 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 +61 212 £100,000 +8.11% 550
UK excluding London -4 135 £85,000 +3.03% 180
London +25 115 £100,000 +5.26% 356
Work from Home +13 64 £100,000 +12.68% 150
North of England -23 48 £85,000 -10.53% 68
North West +21 40 £80,000 -15.79% 40
Scotland - 32 £77,415 - 20
Midlands -29 20 £82,500 +11.86% 11
West Midlands -29 18 £80,000 +8.47% 9
South West - 15 £100,000 - 12
East of England - 7 £100,000 - 14
Northern Ireland - 6 £74,830 - 8
Wales - 6 £80,000 -
North East - 5 £85,000 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £90,000 - 23
East Midlands - 2 £95,000 - 2
South East - 2 - - 47

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 231 (81.05%) AI
2 92 (32.28%) Generative AI
3 58 (20.35%) LLM
4 41 (14.39%) Machine Learning
5 37 (12.98%) AI Transformation
5 37 (12.98%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 31 (10.88%) AWS
7 30 (10.53%) Azure
7 30 (10.53%) Roadmaps
8 27 (9.47%) Microsoft
8 27 (9.47%) Security Cleared
9 26 (9.12%) Analytics
10 23 (8.07%) Python
11 22 (7.72%) Data Transformation
12 21 (7.37%) GCP
12 21 (7.37%) OpenAI
12 21 (7.37%) Prompt Engineering
13 20 (7.02%) Observability
13 20 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (7.02%) Use Case
14 19 (6.67%) CI/CD
14 19 (6.67%) SC Cleared
15 18 (6.32%) Architecture Governance
16 17 (5.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 16 (5.61%) Agile
18 15 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 15 (5.26%) Technical Architecture
19 14 (4.91%) Cybersecurity
19 14 (4.91%) Data Architecture
19 14 (4.91%) Open Source

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 (1.05%) SAS
2 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.88%) AWS
2 30 (10.53%) Azure
3 21 (7.37%) GCP
4 13 (4.56%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.86%) dbt
6 8 (2.81%) Serverless
7 6 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.40%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.40%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.70%) n8n
11 2 (0.70%) Vertex AI
11 2 (0.70%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.16%) Broadband
2 2 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.40%) Pinecone
2 4 (1.40%) Weaviate
3 2 (0.70%) Power BI
4 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.35%) Metadata
4 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 83 (29.12%) Finance
2 42 (14.74%) Banking
3 30 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 14 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.16%) Law
6 6 (2.11%) Games
7 4 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.40%) Retail
8 3 (1.05%) Billing
8 3 (1.05%) Public Speaking
8 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.46%) LangChain
2 6 (2.11%) PyTorch
2 6 (2.11%) RESTful
2 6 (2.11%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.75%) Terraform
4 4 (1.40%) Faiss
4 4 (1.40%) Hugging Face
4 4 (1.40%) LangGraph
4 4 (1.40%) LlamaIndex
5 3 (1.05%) A2A Protocol
5 3 (1.05%) CrewAI
5 3 (1.05%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (1.05%) Node.js
5 3 (1.05%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.35%) NLTK
6 1 (0.35%) pgvector
6 1 (0.35%) REST
6 1 (0.35%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.35%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.53%) AI Agents
2 18 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.46%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.70%) Blog
6 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.70%) Stable Diffusion
7 1 (0.35%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.35%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.35%) Life Science
7 1 (0.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (81.05%) AI
2 92 (32.28%) Generative AI
3 58 (20.35%) LLM
4 41 (14.39%) Machine Learning
5 37 (12.98%) AI Transformation
5 37 (12.98%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 30 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 26 (9.12%) Analytics
8 22 (7.72%) Data Transformation
9 21 (7.37%) Prompt Engineering
10 20 (7.02%) Observability
10 20 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (7.02%) Use Case
11 19 (6.67%) CI/CD
12 18 (6.32%) Architecture Governance
13 17 (5.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (5.61%) Agile
15 15 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (5.26%) Technical Architecture
16 14 (4.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.07%) Python
2 6 (2.11%) Go
3 5 (1.75%) C#
3 5 (1.75%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.75%) SQL
4 3 (1.05%) R
4 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.70%) C++
5 2 (0.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.70%) Degree
5 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) GRC
3 2 (0.70%) QA
4 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.35%) GDPR
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 27 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.37%) OpenAI
3 12 (4.21%) Google
4 3 (1.05%) Avaya
4 3 (1.05%) Cisco
4 3 (1.05%) Genesys
5 2 (0.70%) Databricks
5 2 (0.70%) LexisNexis
5 2 (0.70%) Mistral
6 1 (0.35%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.35%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.35%) Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Informatica
6 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle
6 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.35%) SAP
6 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.35%) Workday