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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 648 750
Rank change year-on-year +136 +102 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 305 24 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.049% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.054% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 164 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% -
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 109,576 44,426 71,253
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 89.79% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,908 25,599 41,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,875 £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 £98,750 £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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +83 230 £100,000 +5.26% 506
UK excluding London +11 143 £85,000 +3.03% 149
London +49 127 £100,000 +3.90% 367
Work from Home +21 73 £100,000 +12.68% 128
North of England -24 51 £85,000 -10.53% 50
North West +10 41 £80,000 -15.79% 30
Scotland - 31 £77,415 - 17
Midlands -24 24 £85,000 +15.25% 10
West Midlands -30 19 £80,000 +8.47% 8
South West - 14 £100,000 - 13
Northern Ireland - 9 £74,830 - 10
East of England - 7 £100,000 - 12
Wales - 6 £80,000 - 2
North East - 5 £85,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £95,000 - 18
East Midlands - 5 £95,000 - 2
South East - 2 - - 35

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 243 (79.67%) AI
2 90 (29.51%) Generative AI
3 56 (18.36%) LLM
4 41 (13.44%) Machine Learning
5 37 (12.13%) AI Transformation
6 36 (11.80%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 33 (10.82%) Security Cleared
8 29 (9.51%) Microsoft
9 28 (9.18%) AWS
9 28 (9.18%) Roadmaps
10 27 (8.85%) Analytics
10 27 (8.85%) Azure
11 25 (8.20%) SC Cleared
12 23 (7.54%) Data Transformation
12 23 (7.54%) Use Case
13 22 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (6.89%) Prompt Engineering
14 21 (6.89%) Python
15 20 (6.56%) Architecture Governance
15 20 (6.56%) GCP
16 19 (6.23%) CI/CD
16 19 (6.23%) Observability
17 18 (5.90%) OpenAI
18 17 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
18 17 (5.57%) Data Architecture
19 16 (5.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 15 (4.92%) Agile
20 15 (4.92%) Infrastructure as Code
20 15 (4.92%) Technical Architecture
21 14 (4.59%) 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 (0.98%) SAS
2 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (9.18%) AWS
2 27 (8.85%) Azure
3 20 (6.56%) GCP
4 13 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.61%) dbt
6 6 (1.97%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (1.97%) Serverless
7 5 (1.64%) Amazon Bedrock
7 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.31%) Azure AI
9 3 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.66%) n8n
10 2 (0.66%) Zapier
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.95%) Broadband
2 2 (0.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
1 6 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.66%) Metadata
2 2 (0.66%) Pinecone
2 2 (0.66%) Power BI
2 2 (0.66%) Weaviate
3 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
General
1 84 (27.54%) Finance
2 44 (14.43%) Banking
3 31 (10.16%) Social Skills
4 14 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.95%) Law
6 6 (1.97%) Games
6 6 (1.97%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.31%) Retail
8 3 (0.98%) Billing
8 3 (0.98%) Public Speaking
8 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.66%) Legal
9 2 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.66%) Military
10 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.97%) RESTful
2 5 (1.64%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) LangChain
4 3 (0.98%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (0.98%) Hugging Face
4 3 (0.98%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (0.98%) Node.js
4 3 (0.98%) PyTorch
4 3 (0.98%) Semantic Kernel
4 3 (0.98%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.66%) Faiss
5 2 (0.66%) LangGraph
5 2 (0.66%) LlamaIndex
5 2 (0.66%) REST
5 2 (0.66%) SOAP
6 1 (0.33%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.33%) Middleware
6 1 (0.33%) pgvector
6 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.51%) AI Agents
2 19 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.30%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (0.98%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.66%) Blog
6 2 (0.66%) Stable Diffusion
7 1 (0.33%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.33%) CMDB
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 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (79.67%) AI
2 90 (29.51%) Generative AI
3 56 (18.36%) LLM
4 41 (13.44%) Machine Learning
5 37 (12.13%) AI Transformation
6 36 (11.80%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 28 (9.18%) Roadmaps
8 27 (8.85%) Analytics
9 23 (7.54%) Data Transformation
9 23 (7.54%) Use Case
10 22 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (6.89%) Prompt Engineering
12 20 (6.56%) Architecture Governance
13 19 (6.23%) CI/CD
13 19 (6.23%) Observability
14 17 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (5.57%) Data Architecture
15 16 (5.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (4.92%) Agile
16 15 (4.92%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.89%) Python
2 6 (1.97%) Go
2 6 (1.97%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.64%) C#
3 5 (1.64%) SQL
4 3 (0.98%) R
4 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.66%) C++
5 2 (0.66%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (10.82%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.66%) Degree
5 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.66%) GRC
3 2 (0.66%) 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 5 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.90%) OpenAI
3 11 (3.61%) Google
4 4 (1.31%) Workday
5 3 (0.98%) Avaya
5 3 (0.98%) Cisco
5 3 (0.98%) Genesys
6 2 (0.66%) LexisNexis
6 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) Informatica
7 1 (0.33%) Mistral
7 1 (0.33%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.33%) SAP