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 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 654 864
Rank change year-on-year +95 +210 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 205 26 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.053% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.059% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 114 11 5
10th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £94,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £75,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £103,750
90th Percentile £102,125 £101,250 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

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 93,213 44,199 93,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 89.97% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 63,958 26,129 66,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.66% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 14 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 17 July 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 +55 159 £97,500 +18.18% 94
UK excluding London +26 100 £82,500 +3.13% 31
London +41 85 £100,000 +5.26% 73
Work from Home +19 43 £100,000 +21.21% 32
North of England +5 35 £98,500 +23.13% 10
North West +22 30 £100,000 +25.00% 9
Scotland - 19 £74,830 - 9
West Midlands -3 18 £80,000 +8.47% 3
Midlands -14 18 £80,000 +8.47% 3
South West - 15 £100,000 - 1
North East - 5 £85,000 -
Wales - 5 £80,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £74,830 -
South East - 3 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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.

1 174 (84.88%) AI
2 66 (32.20%) Generative AI
3 45 (21.95%) LLM
4 41 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 34 (16.59%) AWS
6 30 (14.63%) Azure
7 29 (14.15%) Python
8 25 (12.20%) Roadmaps
9 23 (11.22%) Microsoft
10 22 (10.73%) AI Transformation
10 22 (10.73%) Analytics
11 20 (9.76%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 20 (9.76%) Security Cleared
12 18 (8.78%) GCP
12 18 (8.78%) OpenAI
13 17 (8.29%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (7.32%) Observability
14 15 (7.32%) Open Source
14 15 (7.32%) Technical Architecture
15 14 (6.83%) Data Transformation
16 13 (6.34%) Agile
16 13 (6.34%) CI/CD
16 13 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
16 13 (6.34%) MongoDB
16 13 (6.34%) Prototyping
16 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
16 13 (6.34%) Validation
17 12 (5.85%) Data Modelling
17 12 (5.85%) Rapid Prototyping

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 (1.46%) SAS
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.59%) AWS
2 30 (14.63%) Azure
3 18 (8.78%) GCP
4 11 (5.37%) dbt
5 10 (4.88%) Serverless
6 6 (2.93%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.44%) Amazon Bedrock
7 5 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.46%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.46%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.98%) Azure AI
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.98%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) Broadband
2 2 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.34%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.95%) Pinecone
3 4 (1.95%) Weaviate
4 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.46%) Redis
5 2 (0.98%) Db2
5 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.49%) Metadata
6 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Power BI
6 1 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 40 (19.51%) Finance
2 23 (11.22%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.32%) Banking
4 14 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.85%) Law
6 8 (3.90%) Games
7 4 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Billing
8 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Public Speaking
9 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.98%) Military
9 2 (0.98%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.90%) LangChain
1 8 (3.90%) PyTorch
1 8 (3.90%) TensorFlow
2 6 (2.93%) RESTful
3 5 (2.44%) LangGraph
3 5 (2.44%) LlamaIndex
3 5 (2.44%) Model Context Protocol
4 4 (1.95%) CrewAI
4 4 (1.95%) Faiss
5 3 (1.46%) A2A Protocol
5 3 (1.46%) Hugging Face
5 3 (1.46%) Node.js
6 2 (0.98%) REST
6 2 (0.98%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.49%) NLTK
7 1 (0.49%) pgvector
7 1 (0.49%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.49%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.24%) AI Agents
2 16 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.37%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.90%) Low-Code
4 8 (3.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 7 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.98%) Blog
7 2 (0.98%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.98%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.49%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.49%) Life Science
8 1 (0.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.98%) Linux
1 2 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (84.88%) AI
2 66 (32.20%) Generative AI
3 45 (21.95%) LLM
4 41 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 25 (12.20%) Roadmaps
6 22 (10.73%) AI Transformation
6 22 (10.73%) Analytics
7 20 (9.76%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 17 (8.29%) Software Engineering
8 17 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (7.32%) Observability
9 15 (7.32%) Open Source
9 15 (7.32%) Technical Architecture
10 14 (6.83%) Data Transformation
11 13 (6.34%) Agile
11 13 (6.34%) CI/CD
11 13 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (6.34%) Prototyping
11 13 (6.34%) Validation
12 12 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (14.15%) Python
2 8 (3.90%) Go
3 6 (2.93%) SQL
4 5 (2.44%) C#
4 5 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.95%) Java
6 3 (1.46%) R
7 2 (0.98%) C++
7 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.95%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.46%) Degree
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.98%) CISSP
5 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.98%) QA
4 1 (0.49%) GRC
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.49%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 23 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.78%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.44%) Google
4 3 (1.46%) Avaya
4 3 (1.46%) Cisco
4 3 (1.46%) Genesys
5 2 (0.98%) Databricks
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle
6 1 (0.49%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.49%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.49%) IBM
6 1 (0.49%) Informatica
6 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.49%) SAP