Artificial Intelligence Architect Jobs

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 704 898 918
Rank change year-on-year +194 +20 +361
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 22 14 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.013% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.014% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £69,250 £94,750 £124,000
25th Percentile £77,500 - £130,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £140,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £145,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £110,500 £148,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

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 52,841 102,275 81,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 94.83% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,673 72,139 54,039
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,770 £38,750 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 6 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 3 July 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 +180 22 £80,000 -22.89% 115
London +117 19 £92,500 -5.13% 69
UK excluding London +174 3 £80,000 - 48
North of England - 3 £80,000 - 6
North West - 3 £80,000 - 4
Work from Home +121 2 £73,750 -24.36% 55

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Artificial Intelligence Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 20 (90.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 17 (77.27%) Generative AI
3 14 (63.64%) Azure AI
3 14 (63.64%) Degree
3 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 14 (63.64%) Machine Learning
3 14 (63.64%) Conversational UI
4 13 (59.09%) Data Science
4 13 (59.09%) Python
4 13 (59.09%) TOGAF
4 13 (59.09%) Azure Certification
4 13 (59.09%) Conversational AI
4 13 (59.09%) MLOps
5 12 (54.55%) OpenAI
5 12 (54.55%) LLM
5 12 (54.55%) Natural Language Processing
5 12 (54.55%) Data Privacy
5 12 (54.55%) Mentoring
6 11 (50.00%) User Experience
6 11 (50.00%) Algorithms
6 11 (50.00%) Analytics
6 11 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (50.00%) ServiceNow
6 11 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 11 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (50.00%) Workday
6 11 (50.00%) GDPR
6 11 (50.00%) SaaS
6 11 (50.00%) Google

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) Azure AI
3 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 11 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 11 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
1 1 (4.55%) LangChain
1 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 11 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (18.18%) AI Agents
3 3 (13.64%) Life Science
3 3 (13.64%) Reinsurance
4 2 (9.09%) Data Fabric
5 1 (4.55%) Blog
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (77.27%) Generative AI
3 14 (63.64%) Conversational UI
3 14 (63.64%) Machine Learning
4 13 (59.09%) Conversational AI
4 13 (59.09%) Data Science
4 13 (59.09%) MLOps
4 13 (59.09%) TOGAF
5 12 (54.55%) Data Privacy
5 12 (54.55%) LLM
5 12 (54.55%) Mentoring
5 12 (54.55%) Natural Language Processing
6 11 (50.00%) Analytics
6 11 (50.00%) Computer Science
6 11 (50.00%) Natural Language Understanding
6 11 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 11 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
6 11 (50.00%) Roadmaps
6 11 (50.00%) User Experience
7 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) C#
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Degree
2 13 (59.09%) Azure Certification
3 11 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 2 (9.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 11 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (54.55%) OpenAI
3 11 (50.00%) Google
3 11 (50.00%) SAP
3 11 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 11 (50.00%) Workday
4 2 (9.09%) Databricks
5 1 (4.55%) Foundry