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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 662 820
Rank change year-on-year +105 +158 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 228 25 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.050% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.056% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 127 10 5
10th Percentile £71,349 £63,625 £94,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £74,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £86,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -13.75% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,313 £103,750
90th Percentile £102,600 £102,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 97,516 44,723 79,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.09% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 66,672 26,642 54,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 15 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 2 August 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 +66 170 £98,500 +14.20% 211
UK excluding London +34 111 £85,000 +6.25% 65
London +32 90 £100,000 +5.26% 161
Work from Home +21 46 £100,000 +21.21% 75
North of England -5 35 £85,000 +6.25% 14
North West +24 30 £98,500 +23.13% 11
Scotland - 26 £74,830 - 17
Midlands -13 18 £80,000 +8.47% 4
West Midlands -21 18 £80,000 +8.47% 3
South West - 16 £100,000 -
North East - 5 £85,000 - 2
Wales - 5 £80,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £74,830 - 1
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 11
South East - 3 - - 18

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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.

1 193 (84.65%) AI
2 76 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 49 (21.49%) LLM
4 44 (19.30%) Machine Learning
5 37 (16.23%) AWS
6 33 (14.47%) Azure
7 29 (12.72%) Roadmaps
8 28 (12.28%) Python
9 25 (10.96%) AI Transformation
9 25 (10.96%) Analytics
10 24 (10.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 23 (10.09%) Microsoft
12 22 (9.65%) Security Cleared
13 21 (9.21%) GCP
14 20 (8.77%) OpenAI
15 18 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (7.46%) Software Engineering
17 16 (7.02%) Data Transformation
18 15 (6.58%) Agile
18 15 (6.58%) Observability
18 15 (6.58%) Technical Architecture
19 14 (6.14%) CI/CD
19 14 (6.14%) Open Source
19 14 (6.14%) Prompt Engineering
19 14 (6.14%) SC Cleared
19 14 (6.14%) Technical Leadership
20 13 (5.70%) Prototyping
20 13 (5.70%) Validation
21 12 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
21 12 (5.26%) Data Architecture

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 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.23%) AWS
2 33 (14.47%) Azure
3 21 (9.21%) GCP
4 11 (4.82%) dbt
4 11 (4.82%) Serverless
5 9 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.19%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (1.32%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.32%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.32%) Vertex AI
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.39%) Broadband
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.19%) Pinecone
3 5 (2.19%) Weaviate
4 2 (0.88%) Db2
4 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.88%) Power BI
4 2 (0.88%) Redis
4 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.44%) Metadata
5 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.44%) MLflow
General
1 50 (21.93%) Finance
2 23 (10.09%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.89%) Banking
4 14 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.82%) Law
6 8 (3.51%) Games
7 5 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Billing
8 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.32%) Public Speaking
8 3 (1.32%) Retail
9 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.88%) Military
9 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.51%) LangChain
2 7 (3.07%) PyTorch
2 7 (3.07%) TensorFlow
3 6 (2.63%) RESTful
4 5 (2.19%) Faiss
4 5 (2.19%) LangGraph
4 5 (2.19%) LlamaIndex
4 5 (2.19%) Model Context Protocol
5 4 (1.75%) CrewAI
5 4 (1.75%) Hugging Face
6 3 (1.32%) A2A Protocol
6 3 (1.32%) Node.js
6 3 (1.32%) REST
6 3 (1.32%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.44%) Middleware
7 1 (0.44%) NLTK
7 1 (0.44%) pgvector
7 1 (0.44%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.44%) SOAP
7 1 (0.44%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.40%) AI Agents
2 13 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.51%) Low-Code
4 8 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
5 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.88%) Blog
7 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.88%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.44%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.44%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.44%) Life Science
8 1 (0.44%) Social Media
8 1 (0.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.88%) Linux
1 2 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (84.65%) AI
2 76 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 49 (21.49%) LLM
4 44 (19.30%) Machine Learning
5 29 (12.72%) Roadmaps
6 25 (10.96%) AI Transformation
6 25 (10.96%) Analytics
7 24 (10.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 18 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (7.46%) Software Engineering
10 16 (7.02%) Data Transformation
11 15 (6.58%) Agile
11 15 (6.58%) Observability
11 15 (6.58%) Technical Architecture
12 14 (6.14%) CI/CD
12 14 (6.14%) Open Source
12 14 (6.14%) Prompt Engineering
12 14 (6.14%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (5.70%) Prototyping
13 13 (5.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.28%) Python
2 8 (3.51%) Go
3 5 (2.19%) C#
3 5 (2.19%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.19%) SQL
4 4 (1.75%) Java
5 3 (1.32%) R
6 2 (0.88%) C++
6 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.88%) Degree
5 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) QA
4 1 (0.44%) GRC
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 23 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.77%) OpenAI
3 7 (3.07%) Google
4 3 (1.32%) Avaya
4 3 (1.32%) Cisco
4 3 (1.32%) Genesys
4 3 (1.32%) Oracle
5 2 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.44%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.44%) Foundry
6 1 (0.44%) Informatica
6 1 (0.44%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.44%) SAP
6 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow