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 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 780 772
Rank change year-on-year +135 -8 +426
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 28 18 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.023% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.024% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 1
10th Percentile £65,000 £94,375 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £98,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £150,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -33.33% +62.16%
75th Percentile £100,625 £103,438 -
90th Percentile £101,250 £109,375 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,459 74,568 58,777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 95.26% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 26,159 45,575 45,404
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect 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 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 8 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 13 September 2025. 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 +121 26 £92,500 -7.50% 28
London +72 22 £95,000 -3.80% 21
Work from Home +79 8 £88,750 -10.13% 11
UK excluding London +111 3 £82,500 - 11
Midlands - 2 £73,750 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £73,750 - 1
North West - 1 £95,000 -
North of England - 1 £95,000 -

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, Artificial Intelligence Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 25 (89.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (82.14%) Azure
3 16 (57.14%) Generative AI
4 15 (53.57%) Azure AI
4 15 (53.57%) Python
5 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
5 13 (46.43%) Machine Learning
5 13 (46.43%) MLOps
6 12 (42.86%) Data Science
6 12 (42.86%) Google
7 11 (39.29%) Analytics
7 11 (39.29%) OpenAI
7 11 (39.29%) LLM
8 10 (35.71%) Azure Certification
8 10 (35.71%) Conversational UI
8 10 (35.71%) Data Privacy
8 10 (35.71%) Algorithms
8 10 (35.71%) Natural Language Processing
8 10 (35.71%) AWS
8 10 (35.71%) TOGAF
8 10 (35.71%) Degree
8 10 (35.71%) Law
9 9 (32.14%) Finance
9 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
9 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
9 9 (32.14%) Conversational AI
10 8 (28.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (28.57%) Natural Language Understanding
10 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (28.57%) CI/CD

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Azure
2 15 (53.57%) Azure AI
3 10 (35.71%) AWS
4 8 (28.57%) GCP
4 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 8 (28.57%) SaaS
5 6 (21.43%) GitHub
6 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
7 4 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (10.71%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (10.71%) Vertex AI
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (7.14%) dbt
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MLflow
General
1 10 (35.71%) Law
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Retail
4 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Games
6 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Legal
7 1 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Hugging Face
1 2 (7.14%) LangChain
2 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Algorithms
2 8 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (25.00%) AI Agents
4 4 (14.29%) Life Science
4 4 (14.29%) Reinsurance
5 3 (10.71%) NVMe
5 3 (10.71%) PCIe
6 2 (7.14%) Data Fabric
7 1 (3.57%) Blog
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (57.14%) Generative AI
3 13 (46.43%) Machine Learning
3 13 (46.43%) MLOps
4 12 (42.86%) Data Science
5 11 (39.29%) Analytics
5 11 (39.29%) LLM
6 10 (35.71%) Conversational UI
6 10 (35.71%) Data Privacy
6 10 (35.71%) Natural Language Processing
6 10 (35.71%) TOGAF
7 9 (32.14%) Conversational AI
7 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
7 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
8 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 8 (28.57%) DevOps
8 8 (28.57%) Natural Language Understanding
8 8 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
8 8 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) R
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Azure Certification
1 10 (35.71%) Degree
2 8 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (10.71%) MCP
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (7.14%) PhD
6 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 8 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) EU AI Act
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) GPFS
1 3 (10.71%) Lustre
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (42.86%) Google
3 11 (39.29%) OpenAI
4 8 (28.57%) SAP
4 8 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 8 (28.57%) Workday
5 6 (21.43%) Databricks
6 3 (10.71%) NVIDIA
7 2 (7.14%) Foundry
8 1 (3.57%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle
8 1 (3.57%) OutSystems
8 1 (3.57%) Red Hat