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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 656 862
Rank change year-on-year +81 +206 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 200 25 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.051% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.057% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 112 12 5
10th Percentile £71,349 £65,875 £94,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £76,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £81,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,438 £103,750
90th Percentile £102,725 £101,250 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 -

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 92,998 44,238 95,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63,730 26,125 68,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
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% - -5.12%

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 13 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 13 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 +64 156 £98,000 +20.62% 88
UK excluding London +20 95 £80,000 - 24
London +39 85 £100,000 +5.26% 69
Work from Home +30 42 £100,000 +21.21% 28
North of England +1 32 £98,500 +23.13% 5
North West +10 28 £100,000 +25.00% 5
West Midlands -5 18 £80,000 +8.47% 2
Midlands -16 18 £80,000 +8.47% 3
Scotland - 17 £74,830 - 5
South West - 15 £100,000 -
Wales - 5 £80,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £74,830 -
North East - 4 £85,000 -
South East - 3 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 169 (84.50%) AI
2 64 (32.00%) Generative AI
3 45 (22.50%) LLM
4 40 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 34 (17.00%) AWS
6 31 (15.50%) Azure
7 30 (15.00%) Python
8 25 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 24 (12.00%) Microsoft
10 23 (11.50%) AI Transformation
11 22 (11.00%) Analytics
12 20 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
13 18 (9.00%) GCP
13 18 (9.00%) OpenAI
14 17 (8.50%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (8.00%) Open Source
16 15 (7.50%) Observability
16 15 (7.50%) Technical Architecture
17 14 (7.00%) Data Transformation
18 13 (6.50%) Agile
18 13 (6.50%) CI/CD
18 13 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
18 13 (6.50%) MongoDB
18 13 (6.50%) Prototyping
18 13 (6.50%) SC Cleared
18 13 (6.50%) Validation
19 12 (6.00%) AIOps
19 12 (6.00%) 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 (1.50%) SAS
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.00%) AWS
2 31 (15.50%) Azure
3 18 (9.00%) GCP
4 11 (5.50%) dbt
5 10 (5.00%) Serverless
6 6 (3.00%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon Bedrock
7 5 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.50%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.00%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.00%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.00%) Broadband
2 2 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.50%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.00%) Pinecone
3 4 (2.00%) Weaviate
4 3 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.50%) Redis
5 2 (1.00%) Db2
5 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Power BI
6 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.50%) MLflow
General
1 37 (18.50%) Finance
2 23 (11.50%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.50%) Banking
4 14 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (7.00%) Law
5 8 (4.00%) Games
6 3 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.50%) Billing
6 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.50%) Public Speaking
7 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.00%) Legal
7 2 (1.00%) Military
7 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.00%) Retail
8 1 (0.50%) Front Office
8 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.00%) LangChain
1 8 (4.00%) PyTorch
1 8 (4.00%) TensorFlow
2 6 (3.00%) RESTful
3 5 (2.50%) LangGraph
3 5 (2.50%) LlamaIndex
3 5 (2.50%) Model Context Protocol
4 4 (2.00%) CrewAI
4 4 (2.00%) Faiss
5 3 (1.50%) A2A Protocol
5 3 (1.50%) Hugging Face
5 3 (1.50%) Node.js
6 2 (1.00%) REST
6 2 (1.00%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.50%) Kafka
7 1 (0.50%) NLTK
7 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.50%) pgvector
7 1 (0.50%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.50%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.50%) AI Agents
2 16 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 7 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.00%) Blog
7 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.00%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.50%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.50%) Life Science
8 1 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.00%) Linux
1 2 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (84.50%) AI
2 64 (32.00%) Generative AI
3 45 (22.50%) LLM
4 40 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 25 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 23 (11.50%) AI Transformation
7 22 (11.00%) Analytics
8 20 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 17 (8.50%) Software Engineering
9 17 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (8.00%) Open Source
11 15 (7.50%) Observability
11 15 (7.50%) Technical Architecture
12 14 (7.00%) Data Transformation
13 13 (6.50%) Agile
13 13 (6.50%) CI/CD
13 13 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (6.50%) Prototyping
13 13 (6.50%) Validation
14 12 (6.00%) AIOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.00%) Python
2 8 (4.00%) Go
3 6 (3.00%) SQL
4 5 (2.50%) C#
4 5 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.00%) Java
6 3 (1.50%) R
7 2 (1.00%) C++
7 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.50%) CISSP
4 3 (1.50%) Degree
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 3 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.00%) QA
4 1 (0.50%) GRC
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Grafana
2 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.00%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.50%) Google
4 3 (1.50%) Avaya
4 3 (1.50%) Cisco
4 3 (1.50%) Genesys
5 2 (1.00%) Databricks
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle
6 1 (0.50%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.50%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.50%) IBM
6 1 (0.50%) Informatica
6 1 (0.50%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.50%) SAP