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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 648 762
Rank change year-on-year +130 +114 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 307 22 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.044% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.049% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 164 10 6
10th Percentile £71,349 £72,875 £94,375
25th Percentile £85,000 £81,563 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £103,438
90th Percentile £109,250 £105,375 £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 109,737 44,641 70,718
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 89.74% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 74,771 25,775 40,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +73 232 £98,500 +3.68% 537
UK excluding London +8 145 £85,000 +3.03% 175
London +43 127 £100,000 +2.56% 379
Work from Home +25 72 £100,000 +9.59% 161
North of England -12 51 £85,000 -10.53% 54
North West +20 41 £80,000 -15.79% 28
Scotland - 31 £77,415 - 27
Midlands -20 26 £85,000 +15.25% 16
West Midlands -22 19 £80,000 +8.47% 10
South West - 14 £100,000 - 14
Northern Ireland - 9 £74,830 - 10
East of England - 7 £100,000 - 16
East Midlands - 7 £95,000 - 6
Wales - 6 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 5 £95,000 - 21
North East - 5 £85,000 - 5
South East - 2 - - 34

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 245 (79.80%) AI
2 87 (28.34%) Generative AI
3 54 (17.59%) LLM
4 41 (13.36%) Machine Learning
5 36 (11.73%) AI Transformation
6 35 (11.40%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 34 (11.07%) Security Cleared
8 28 (9.12%) Microsoft
9 26 (8.47%) Analytics
9 26 (8.47%) AWS
9 26 (8.47%) SC Cleared
10 25 (8.14%) Azure
10 25 (8.14%) Roadmaps
11 24 (7.82%) Data Transformation
12 22 (7.17%) Use Case
13 21 (6.84%) Architecture Governance
13 21 (6.84%) Prompt Engineering
14 20 (6.51%) Python
14 20 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (5.86%) CI/CD
16 18 (5.86%) Data Architecture
16 18 (5.86%) GCP
17 17 (5.54%) Observability
18 16 (5.21%) OpenAI
18 16 (5.21%) Translating Business Requirements
19 15 (4.89%) Agile
19 15 (4.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 14 (4.56%) Data Protection
20 14 (4.56%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (0.98%) SAS
2 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (8.47%) AWS
2 25 (8.14%) Azure
3 18 (5.86%) GCP
4 13 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.58%) dbt
6 6 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (1.95%) Serverless
7 5 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.63%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (1.30%) Azure AI
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.65%) n8n
10 2 (0.65%) Zapier
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.93%) Broadband
2 2 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.95%) MongoDB
1 6 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.65%) Metadata
2 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
General
1 84 (27.36%) Finance
2 45 (14.66%) Banking
3 30 (9.77%) Social Skills
4 14 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.61%) Law
6 7 (2.28%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.95%) Games
8 4 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.30%) Retail
9 3 (0.98%) Billing
9 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Legal
10 2 (0.65%) Marketing
10 2 (0.65%) Military
10 2 (0.65%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.95%) RESTful
2 5 (1.63%) Terraform
3 3 (0.98%) A2A Protocol
3 3 (0.98%) Hugging Face
3 3 (0.98%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (0.98%) Node.js
4 2 (0.65%) LangChain
4 2 (0.65%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.65%) REST
4 2 (0.65%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (0.65%) SOAP
4 2 (0.65%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.33%) Faiss
5 1 (0.33%) HTML
5 1 (0.33%) JSON
5 1 (0.33%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.33%) Middleware
5 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.79%) AI Agents
2 20 (6.51%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.28%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.28%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (1.30%) Private Cloud
6 3 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.65%) Blog
7 2 (0.65%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.65%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.33%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.33%) CMDB
8 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.33%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.33%) Life Science
8 1 (0.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (79.80%) AI
2 87 (28.34%) Generative AI
3 54 (17.59%) LLM
4 41 (13.36%) Machine Learning
5 36 (11.73%) AI Transformation
6 35 (11.40%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 26 (8.47%) Analytics
8 25 (8.14%) Roadmaps
9 24 (7.82%) Data Transformation
10 22 (7.17%) Use Case
11 21 (6.84%) Architecture Governance
11 21 (6.84%) Prompt Engineering
12 20 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (5.86%) CI/CD
14 18 (5.86%) Data Architecture
15 17 (5.54%) Observability
16 16 (5.21%) Translating Business Requirements
17 15 (4.89%) Agile
17 15 (4.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.51%) Python
2 6 (1.95%) Go
2 6 (1.95%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.63%) C#
3 5 (1.63%) SQL
4 3 (0.98%) R
4 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.65%) C++
5 2 (0.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 34 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.65%) Degree
5 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.65%) GRC
3 2 (0.65%) QA
4 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.21%) OpenAI
3 10 (3.26%) Google
4 4 (1.30%) Workday
5 3 (0.98%) Avaya
5 3 (0.98%) Cisco
5 3 (0.98%) Genesys
6 2 (0.65%) LexisNexis
6 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) Informatica
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.33%) SAP