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 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 727 750
Rank change year-on-year +82 +23 +419
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 20 18 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.025% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.027% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 2
10th Percentile £72,875 £94,375 £96,500
25th Percentile £81,563 £98,125 £98,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £100,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -2.44% +10.81%
75th Percentile £101,250 £103,438 £106,250
90th Percentile £105,375 £109,375 £108,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 - £102,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,152 67,765 53,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.75% 95.36% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 25,761 38,706 41,503
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 14 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 8 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 14 October 2025. 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 +109 18 £95,000 -5.00% 16
London +62 14 £97,500 -1.27% 11
Work from Home +57 6 £91,250 -7.59% 10
UK excluding London +82 3 £82,500 - 12
Midlands - 2 £73,750 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £73,750 - 2
North West - 1 £95,000 -
North of England - 1 £95,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, 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 19 (95.00%) AI
2 15 (75.00%) Azure
3 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 10 (50.00%) Finance
4 9 (45.00%) Generative AI
5 8 (40.00%) Python
5 8 (40.00%) GCP
6 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
6 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 7 (35.00%) GitHub
6 7 (35.00%) Azure AI
6 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (35.00%) Databricks
6 7 (35.00%) AI Agents
7 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (30.00%) MLOps
7 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
8 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 5 (25.00%) Retail
8 5 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 5 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
8 5 (25.00%) Presales
9 4 (20.00%) Terraform
9 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (20.00%) Data Science
9 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (20.00%) LLM
9 4 (20.00%) MLflow

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 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (40.00%) GCP
4 7 (35.00%) Azure AI
4 7 (35.00%) GitHub
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 3 (15.00%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (15.00%) dbt
7 3 (15.00%) Vertex AI
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Retail
3 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Games
4 3 (15.00%) Law
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (10.00%) LangChain
2 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) AI Agents
2 4 (20.00%) Life Science
2 4 (20.00%) Reinsurance
3 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (15.00%) NVMe
3 3 (15.00%) PCIe
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.00%) Blog
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) AI
2 9 (45.00%) Generative AI
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (30.00%) MLOps
5 5 (25.00%) Presales
5 5 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 5 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Coaching
6 4 (20.00%) Data Science
6 4 (20.00%) LLM
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) SDLC
6 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (15.00%) MCP
2 3 (15.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) GPFS
1 3 (15.00%) Lustre
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Databricks
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Google
4 3 (15.00%) NVIDIA
4 3 (15.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (10.00%) Foundry
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.00%) OutSystems
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat