Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 617 852
Rank change year-on-year -22 +235 +126
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 71 21 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.051% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.057% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 37 9 2
10th Percentile £72,500 £60,250 £96,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 £98,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.95% -26.79%
75th Percentile - £97,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £110,000 - £108,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.95% -

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 75,427 36,820 85,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 89.83% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 48,455 23,325 64,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -24 53 £100,000 +25.00% 56
London +28 40 £100,000 +29.03% 47
UK excluding London -38 18 £100,000 +25.00% 18
Work from Home +13 13 £100,000 +35.59% 22
North West -22 7 £100,000 +25.00% 2
North of England -57 7 £100,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland - 5 - -
South West - 4 £100,000 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £85,000 -
South East - 1 - - 12
Midlands - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 April 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 54 (76.06%) AI
2 26 (36.62%) Generative AI
3 21 (29.58%) Machine Learning
4 20 (28.17%) LLM
5 19 (26.76%) Azure
6 18 (25.35%) AWS
7 15 (21.13%) GCP
8 13 (18.31%) Python
9 12 (16.90%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (14.08%) Analytics
12 9 (12.68%) Data Modelling
12 9 (12.68%) Data Science
12 9 (12.68%) MLOps
12 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
12 9 (12.68%) Presales
12 9 (12.68%) Roadmaps
13 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
13 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
13 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (9.86%) AI Transformation
14 7 (9.86%) AIOps
14 7 (9.86%) Edge Computing
14 7 (9.86%) LangChain
14 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
14 7 (9.86%) Observability
14 7 (9.86%) OpenAI
15 6 (8.45%) Containerisation
15 6 (8.45%) Docker
15 6 (8.45%) Information Security

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 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) Azure
2 18 (25.35%) AWS
3 15 (21.13%) GCP
4 6 (8.45%) Serverless
5 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.23%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (4.23%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.82%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.41%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.41%) dbt
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub
8 1 (1.41%) Google Gemini
8 1 (1.41%) LangSmith
8 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.04%) Redis
3 4 (5.63%) Pinecone
3 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.63%) Weaviate
4 2 (2.82%) DB2
4 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) MLflow
General
1 13 (18.31%) Law
2 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Banking
3 5 (7.04%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.23%) Games
4 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.41%) Front Office
6 1 (1.41%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) LangChain
2 6 (8.45%) PyTorch
2 6 (8.45%) TensorFlow
3 5 (7.04%) LangGraph
3 5 (7.04%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (5.63%) CrewAI
4 4 (5.63%) Faiss
5 2 (2.82%) Kafka
5 2 (2.82%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.82%) REST
6 1 (1.41%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.41%) NLTK
6 1 (1.41%) pgvector
6 1 (1.41%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (1.41%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.41%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (15.49%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.82%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (76.06%) AI
2 26 (36.62%) Generative AI
3 21 (29.58%) Machine Learning
4 20 (28.17%) LLM
5 12 (16.90%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (14.08%) Analytics
8 9 (12.68%) Data Modelling
8 9 (12.68%) Data Science
8 9 (12.68%) MLOps
8 9 (12.68%) Presales
8 9 (12.68%) Roadmaps
9 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
9 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (9.86%) AI Transformation
10 7 (9.86%) AIOps
10 7 (9.86%) Edge Computing
10 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
10 7 (9.86%) Observability
11 6 (8.45%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.31%) Python
2 2 (2.82%) Go
2 2 (2.82%) Java
3 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.23%) CISSP
1 3 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) PhD
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) GRC
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Ansible
2 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) OpenAI
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.23%) Google
4 2 (2.82%) Databricks
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.41%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.41%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.41%) IBM
5 1 (1.41%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.41%) Salesforce