Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £96,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 642 887
Rank change year-on-year +59 +245 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 161 21 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.046% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.052% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 78 8 5
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,000 £94,750
25th Percentile £85,625 £76,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £80,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% -20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £91,875 £103,750
90th Percentile £105,375 £100,875 £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 89,332 40,653 100,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.51% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,290 23,209 72,638
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
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 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,622 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,042 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.08% - -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 26 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 26 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 +52 130 £100,000 +25.00% 60
London +28 77 £100,000 +11.11% 36
UK excluding London +2 63 £100,000 +25.00% 40
Work from Home +31 27 £100,000 +35.59% 30
North West +20 20 £100,000 +25.00% 10
North of England -18 20 £100,000 +25.00% 16
South West - 14 £100,000 - 2
West Midlands - 13 £85,000 - 3
Scotland - 13 - - 9
Midlands - 13 £85,000 - 3
South East - 3 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 130 (80.75%) AI
2 60 (37.27%) Generative AI
3 39 (24.22%) Machine Learning
4 34 (21.12%) LLM
5 30 (18.63%) AWS
5 30 (18.63%) Azure
6 28 (17.39%) Python
7 20 (12.42%) AI Transformation
7 20 (12.42%) Roadmaps
8 18 (11.18%) GCP
8 18 (11.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 17 (10.56%) Analytics
9 17 (10.56%) Software Engineering
10 15 (9.32%) Observability
11 14 (8.70%) MongoDB
12 13 (8.07%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (7.45%) AIOps
13 12 (7.45%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.45%) Microsoft
14 11 (6.83%) Data Architecture
14 11 (6.83%) Data Science
14 11 (6.83%) Data Transformation
14 11 (6.83%) Presales
14 11 (6.83%) Validation
15 10 (6.21%) API Design
15 10 (6.21%) Data Modelling
15 10 (6.21%) MLOps
15 10 (6.21%) Runbook
15 10 (6.21%) Test Automation
16 9 (5.59%) 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 (0.62%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.63%) AWS
1 30 (18.63%) Azure
2 18 (11.18%) GCP
3 7 (4.35%) Serverless
4 6 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.48%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.86%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (1.86%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.86%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.24%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.24%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.24%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.97%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.48%) Pinecone
3 4 (2.48%) Redis
3 4 (2.48%) Weaviate
4 2 (1.24%) Db2
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.62%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.62%) Metadata
5 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.62%) Power BI
5 1 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 31 (19.25%) Finance
2 15 (9.32%) Law
3 14 (8.70%) Banking
4 11 (6.83%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.97%) Games
6 4 (2.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Billing
9 1 (0.62%) Front Office
9 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.62%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.97%) LangChain
1 8 (4.97%) PyTorch
1 8 (4.97%) TensorFlow
2 6 (3.73%) RESTful
3 5 (3.11%) LangGraph
3 5 (3.11%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (2.48%) CrewAI
4 4 (2.48%) Faiss
5 3 (1.86%) Hugging Face
5 3 (1.86%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.24%) REST
6 2 (1.24%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.62%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (0.62%) Kafka
7 1 (0.62%) NLTK
7 1 (0.62%) Node.js
7 1 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.62%) pgvector
7 1 (0.62%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.62%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) AI Agents
2 17 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.97%) Low-Code
3 8 (4.97%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (2.48%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.24%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.24%) Stable Diffusion
7 1 (0.62%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.62%) Life Science
7 1 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.24%) Linux
1 2 (1.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (80.75%) AI
2 60 (37.27%) Generative AI
3 39 (24.22%) Machine Learning
4 34 (21.12%) LLM
5 20 (12.42%) AI Transformation
5 20 (12.42%) Roadmaps
6 18 (11.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 17 (10.56%) Analytics
7 17 (10.56%) Software Engineering
8 15 (9.32%) Observability
9 13 (8.07%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (7.45%) AIOps
10 12 (7.45%) CI/CD
11 11 (6.83%) Data Architecture
11 11 (6.83%) Data Science
11 11 (6.83%) Data Transformation
11 11 (6.83%) Presales
11 11 (6.83%) Validation
12 10 (6.21%) Data Modelling
12 10 (6.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.39%) Python
2 8 (4.97%) Go
3 6 (3.73%) SQL
4 5 (3.11%) C#
4 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.48%) Java
6 3 (1.86%) R
7 2 (1.24%) C++
7 2 (1.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (3.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.86%) CISSP
2 3 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.62%) Degree
4 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.62%) PhD
4 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.24%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) GRC
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.62%) Ansible
2 1 (0.62%) Grafana
2 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.11%) Google
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle
5 1 (0.62%) Avaya
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco
5 1 (0.62%) Databricks
5 1 (0.62%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.62%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.62%) Genesys
5 1 (0.62%) IBM
5 1 (0.62%) Informatica
5 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.62%) SAP