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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 683 798
Rank change year-on-year +54 +115 +220
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 37 14 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.028% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.030% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 3
10th Percentile £72,500 £64,000 -
25th Percentile £95,000 £68,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% +2.70%
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,875 £99,500 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -

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 59,491 46,587 70,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 91.89% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 37,142 24,097 55,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,520
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 8 February 2026.

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 8 February 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 +69 28 £100,000 +25.00% 23
London +63 21 £100,000 +17.65% 20
Work from Home +53 8 £121,250 +21.25% 14
UK excluding London +40 6 £100,000 +25.00% 20
North West +23 6 £100,000 +25.00% 3
North of England -3 6 £100,000 +25.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 27 (72.97%) AI
2 16 (43.24%) Azure
3 13 (35.14%) AWS
4 12 (32.43%) GCP
5 8 (21.62%) Analytics
5 8 (21.62%) Presales
5 8 (21.62%) Python
6 7 (18.92%) Machine Learning
7 6 (16.22%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (16.22%) Data Engineering
7 6 (16.22%) MLOps
7 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
7 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (16.22%) Use Case
8 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (13.51%) Databricks
8 5 (13.51%) Degree
8 5 (13.51%) Edge Computing
8 5 (13.51%) Information Security
8 5 (13.51%) PhD
8 5 (13.51%) SDLC
8 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
8 5 (13.51%) Thought Leadership
9 4 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (10.81%) Business Strategy
9 4 (10.81%) CISSP
9 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.81%) Data Analytics

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 4 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 12 (32.43%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
6 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) dbt
6 4 (10.81%) GitHub
6 4 (10.81%) LangSmith
7 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.11%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.70%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.11%) Redis
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MLflow
General
1 13 (35.14%) Law
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Games
4 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Legal
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Kafka
1 2 (5.41%) LangChain
1 2 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.70%) LangGraph
2 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
3 3 (8.11%) NVMe
3 3 (8.11%) PCIe
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) AI
2 8 (21.62%) Analytics
2 8 (21.62%) Presales
3 7 (18.92%) Machine Learning
4 6 (16.22%) Data Engineering
4 6 (16.22%) MLOps
4 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
4 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (16.22%) Use Case
5 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (13.51%) Edge Computing
5 5 (13.51%) Information Security
5 5 (13.51%) SDLC
5 5 (13.51%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (10.81%) Business Strategy
6 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
6 4 (10.81%) Data Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) LLM
6 4 (10.81%) Telehealth
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
1 5 (13.51%) PhD
2 4 (10.81%) CISSP
2 4 (10.81%) Master's Degree
3 3 (8.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) GRC
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
1 3 (8.11%) GPFS
1 3 (8.11%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Databricks
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) NVIDIA
4 2 (5.41%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.70%) Foundry
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) OutSystems
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat