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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 657 756
Rank change year-on-year +135 +99 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 300 24 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.049% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.054% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 162 12 6
10th Percentile £71,349 £65,875 £94,375
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £103,438
90th Percentile £107,500 £104,625 £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 109,088 44,314 73,256
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.71% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,631 25,938 43,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,641 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +71 226 £100,000 +5.26% 496
UK excluding London +5 141 £85,000 +3.03% 144
London +54 124 £100,000 +3.90% 355
Work from Home +20 71 £100,000 +12.68% 127
North of England -18 50 £85,000 -10.53% 46
North West +12 41 £80,000 -15.79% 28
Scotland - 32 £77,415 - 19
Midlands -22 23 £85,000 +15.25% 15
West Midlands -29 18 £80,000 +8.47% 12
South West - 15 £100,000 - 12
East of England - 7 £100,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 7 £74,830 - 9
Wales - 6 £80,000 -
North East - 5 £85,000 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £95,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £92,500 - 16
South East - 2 - - 35

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 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.

1 240 (80.00%) AI
2 91 (30.33%) Generative AI
3 58 (19.33%) LLM
4 42 (14.00%) Machine Learning
5 37 (12.33%) AI Transformation
5 37 (12.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 31 (10.33%) Security Cleared
7 29 (9.67%) AWS
8 28 (9.33%) Azure
8 28 (9.33%) Microsoft
8 28 (9.33%) Roadmaps
9 26 (8.67%) Analytics
10 23 (7.67%) Data Transformation
10 23 (7.67%) SC Cleared
11 22 (7.33%) Python
12 21 (7.00%) Prompt Engineering
12 21 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (7.00%) Use Case
13 20 (6.67%) GCP
13 20 (6.67%) Observability
14 19 (6.33%) Architecture Governance
14 19 (6.33%) CI/CD
14 19 (6.33%) OpenAI
15 17 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (5.67%) Data Architecture
16 16 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (5.00%) Agile
17 15 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 15 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
18 14 (4.67%) Data Protection

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 (1.00%) SAS
2 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (9.67%) AWS
2 28 (9.33%) Azure
3 20 (6.67%) GCP
4 13 (4.33%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.67%) dbt
6 7 (2.33%) Serverless
7 6 (2.00%) Copilot Studio
7 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.67%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.33%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (0.67%) n8n
11 2 (0.67%) Zapier
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.00%) Broadband
2 2 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.00%) Pinecone
2 3 (1.00%) Weaviate
3 2 (0.67%) Metadata
3 2 (0.67%) Power BI
4 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 84 (28.00%) Finance
2 43 (14.33%) Banking
3 30 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 14 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.00%) Law
6 6 (2.00%) Games
6 6 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.33%) Retail
8 3 (1.00%) Billing
8 3 (1.00%) Public Speaking
8 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.67%) Legal
9 2 (0.67%) Marketing
9 2 (0.67%) Military
10 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.00%) RESTful
2 5 (1.67%) LangChain
2 5 (1.67%) Terraform
3 4 (1.33%) Hugging Face
3 4 (1.33%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.33%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.00%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (1.00%) Faiss
4 3 (1.00%) LangGraph
4 3 (1.00%) LlamaIndex
4 3 (1.00%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (1.00%) Node.js
4 3 (1.00%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (0.67%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.33%) HTML
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.33%) NLTK
6 1 (0.33%) pgvector
6 1 (0.33%) REST
6 1 (0.33%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 19 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.33%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.67%) Blog
6 2 (0.67%) Stable Diffusion
7 1 (0.33%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.33%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.33%) Life Science
7 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (80.00%) AI
2 91 (30.33%) Generative AI
3 58 (19.33%) LLM
4 42 (14.00%) Machine Learning
5 37 (12.33%) AI Transformation
5 37 (12.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 28 (9.33%) Roadmaps
7 26 (8.67%) Analytics
8 23 (7.67%) Data Transformation
9 21 (7.00%) Prompt Engineering
9 21 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (7.00%) Use Case
10 20 (6.67%) Observability
11 19 (6.33%) Architecture Governance
11 19 (6.33%) CI/CD
12 17 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (5.67%) Data Architecture
13 16 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (5.00%) Agile
14 15 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.33%) Python
2 6 (2.00%) Go
3 5 (1.67%) C#
3 5 (1.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.67%) SQL
4 3 (1.00%) R
4 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.67%) C++
5 2 (0.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.67%) Degree
5 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.67%) GRC
3 2 (0.67%) QA
4 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 28 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.33%) OpenAI
3 11 (3.67%) Google
4 3 (1.00%) Avaya
4 3 (1.00%) Cisco
4 3 (1.00%) Genesys
5 2 (0.67%) LexisNexis
5 2 (0.67%) Workday
6 1 (0.33%) Databricks
6 1 (0.33%) Foundry
6 1 (0.33%) Informatica
6 1 (0.33%) Mistral
6 1 (0.33%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle
6 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.33%) SAP
6 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow