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 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 625 886
Rank change year-on-year +6 +261 +47
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 117 21 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.049% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.055% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 60 6 1
10th Percentile £72,500 £64,375 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile - £88,125 £115,000
90th Percentile £106,625 £93,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 86,622 38,048 92,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 89.26% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 57,427 21,318 67,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.32%

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 23 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 11 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 23 May 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 -7 96 £100,000 +25.00% 57
London +22 61 £100,000 +11.11% 40
UK excluding London -14 39 £100,000 +25.00% 28
Work from Home +26 23 £100,000 +35.59% 24
North West +4 11 £100,000 +25.00% 7
North of England -44 11 £100,000 +25.00% 8
Midlands - 11 £85,000 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £85,000 - 2
South West - 9 £100,000 - 3
Scotland - 5 - - 7
South East - 3 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 85 (72.65%) AI
2 42 (35.90%) Generative AI
3 29 (24.79%) Machine Learning
4 26 (22.22%) LLM
5 25 (21.37%) AWS
6 23 (19.66%) Azure
6 23 (19.66%) Python
7 17 (14.53%) Analytics
7 17 (14.53%) GCP
8 16 (13.68%) Roadmaps
9 14 (11.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
10 13 (11.11%) Information Security
10 13 (11.11%) MongoDB
10 13 (11.11%) Observability
11 12 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (9.40%) AIOps
12 11 (9.40%) CI/CD
13 10 (8.55%) Data Modelling
13 10 (8.55%) Presales
13 10 (8.55%) Regulatory Compliance
14 9 (7.69%) Data Architecture
14 9 (7.69%) Data Science
14 9 (7.69%) MLOps
15 8 (6.84%) AI Transformation
15 8 (6.84%) API Design
15 8 (6.84%) Containerisation
15 8 (6.84%) Data Governance
15 8 (6.84%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (6.84%) Kubernetes

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 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.37%) AWS
2 23 (19.66%) Azure
3 17 (14.53%) GCP
4 6 (5.13%) Serverless
5 4 (3.42%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.56%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.71%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.85%) Collibra
8 1 (0.85%) dbt
8 1 (0.85%) GitHub
8 1 (0.85%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.27%) Redis
4 4 (3.42%) Pinecone
4 4 (3.42%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.71%) DB2
5 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.85%) Metadata
6 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (1.71%) MLflow
General
1 20 (17.09%) Law
2 11 (9.40%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.98%) Games
4 6 (5.13%) Finance
5 5 (4.27%) Banking
5 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Front Office
8 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.85%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.98%) LangChain
2 6 (5.13%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.13%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.27%) LangGraph
3 5 (4.27%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (3.42%) CrewAI
4 4 (3.42%) Faiss
4 4 (3.42%) RESTful
5 2 (1.71%) Kafka
5 2 (1.71%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.71%) REST
6 1 (0.85%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.85%) NLTK
6 1 (0.85%) pgvector
6 1 (0.85%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (0.85%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.85%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.97%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.13%) Low-Code
3 6 (5.13%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.71%) Linux
1 2 (1.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (72.65%) AI
2 42 (35.90%) Generative AI
3 29 (24.79%) Machine Learning
4 26 (22.22%) LLM
5 17 (14.53%) Analytics
6 16 (13.68%) Roadmaps
7 14 (11.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
8 13 (11.11%) Information Security
8 13 (11.11%) Observability
9 12 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (9.40%) AIOps
10 11 (9.40%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.55%) Data Modelling
11 10 (8.55%) Presales
11 10 (8.55%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (7.69%) Data Architecture
12 9 (7.69%) Data Science
12 9 (7.69%) MLOps
13 8 (6.84%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.66%) Python
2 6 (5.13%) Go
3 3 (2.56%) C#
3 3 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.56%) R
3 3 (2.56%) SQL
4 2 (1.71%) Java
4 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (2.56%) CISSP
1 3 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.71%) Degree
2 2 (1.71%) PhD
3 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.71%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) GRC
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.13%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.71%) Ansible
2 2 (1.71%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft
1 7 (5.98%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.56%) Google
3 2 (1.71%) Databricks
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle
4 1 (0.85%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.85%) DataRobot
4 1 (0.85%) IBM
4 1 (0.85%) Informatica
4 1 (0.85%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.85%) Salesforce