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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 647 765
Rank change year-on-year +126 +118 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 297 26 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.053% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.059% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 161 11 6
10th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £94,375
25th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £103,438
90th Percentile £107,500 £101,250 £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 108,269 43,856 72,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.61% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,176 25,746 43,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £74,100
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +65 223 £100,000 +8.11% 458
UK excluding London -2 140 £85,000 +3.03% 130
London +34 122 £100,000 +5.26% 320
Work from Home +19 69 £100,000 +12.68% 107
North of England -19 50 £85,000 -10.53% 47
North West +2 41 £80,000 -15.79% 28
Scotland - 32 £77,415 - 17
Midlands -26 21 £85,000 +15.25% 9
West Midlands -33 18 £80,000 +8.47% 7
South West - 16 £100,000 - 9
East of England - 7 £100,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 7 £74,830 - 7
Wales - 6 £80,000 -
North East - 5 £85,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £92,500 - 17
East Midlands - 3 £95,000 - 2
South East - 2 - - 34

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 239 (80.47%) AI
2 91 (30.64%) Generative AI
3 57 (19.19%) LLM
4 43 (14.48%) Machine Learning
5 38 (12.79%) AI Transformation
6 36 (12.12%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 30 (10.10%) AWS
7 30 (10.10%) Roadmaps
7 30 (10.10%) Security Cleared
8 29 (9.76%) Azure
9 28 (9.43%) Microsoft
10 26 (8.75%) Analytics
11 23 (7.74%) Data Transformation
11 23 (7.74%) Python
12 22 (7.41%) SC Cleared
12 22 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
13 21 (7.07%) GCP
13 21 (7.07%) Observability
13 21 (7.07%) Prompt Engineering
14 20 (6.73%) OpenAI
14 20 (6.73%) Use Case
15 19 (6.40%) CI/CD
16 18 (6.06%) Architecture Governance
17 17 (5.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 16 (5.39%) Data Architecture
19 15 (5.05%) Agile
19 15 (5.05%) Cybersecurity
19 15 (5.05%) Infrastructure as Code
19 15 (5.05%) Technical Architecture
20 14 (4.71%) 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 (1.01%) SAS
2 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.10%) AWS
2 29 (9.76%) Azure
3 21 (7.07%) GCP
4 13 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.70%) dbt
6 7 (2.36%) Serverless
7 6 (2.02%) Copilot Studio
7 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.68%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.35%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (0.67%) n8n
11 2 (0.67%) Zapier
12 1 (0.34%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 1 (0.34%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.03%) Broadband
2 2 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.02%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.35%) Pinecone
2 4 (1.35%) Weaviate
3 2 (0.67%) Metadata
3 2 (0.67%) Power BI
4 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 84 (28.28%) Finance
2 42 (14.14%) Banking
3 30 (10.10%) Social Skills
4 14 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.03%) Law
6 6 (2.02%) Games
7 5 (1.68%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.35%) Retail
9 3 (1.01%) Billing
9 3 (1.01%) Public Speaking
9 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Legal
10 2 (0.67%) Marketing
10 2 (0.67%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.02%) LangChain
1 6 (2.02%) RESTful
2 5 (1.68%) PyTorch
2 5 (1.68%) TensorFlow
2 5 (1.68%) Terraform
3 4 (1.35%) Faiss
3 4 (1.35%) Hugging Face
3 4 (1.35%) LangGraph
3 4 (1.35%) LlamaIndex
4 3 (1.01%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (1.01%) CrewAI
4 3 (1.01%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (1.01%) Node.js
4 3 (1.01%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.34%) NLTK
5 1 (0.34%) pgvector
5 1 (0.34%) REST
5 1 (0.34%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.10%) AI Agents
2 18 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.36%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.67%) Blog
6 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.67%) Stable Diffusion
7 1 (0.34%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.34%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.34%) Life Science
7 1 (0.34%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (80.47%) AI
2 91 (30.64%) Generative AI
3 57 (19.19%) LLM
4 43 (14.48%) Machine Learning
5 38 (12.79%) AI Transformation
6 36 (12.12%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 30 (10.10%) Roadmaps
8 26 (8.75%) Analytics
9 23 (7.74%) Data Transformation
10 22 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (7.07%) Observability
11 21 (7.07%) Prompt Engineering
12 20 (6.73%) Use Case
13 19 (6.40%) CI/CD
14 18 (6.06%) Architecture Governance
15 17 (5.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (5.39%) Data Architecture
17 15 (5.05%) Agile
17 15 (5.05%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (5.05%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.74%) Python
2 6 (2.02%) Go
3 5 (1.68%) C#
3 5 (1.68%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.68%) SQL
4 3 (1.01%) R
4 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.67%) C++
5 2 (0.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 30 (10.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.67%) Degree
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.67%) GRC
3 2 (0.67%) QA
4 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.34%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (2.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 28 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.73%) OpenAI
3 11 (3.70%) Google
4 3 (1.01%) Avaya
4 3 (1.01%) Cisco
4 3 (1.01%) Genesys
5 2 (0.67%) LexisNexis
5 2 (0.67%) Mistral
5 2 (0.67%) Workday
6 1 (0.34%) Databricks
6 1 (0.34%) Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) Informatica
6 1 (0.34%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle
6 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.34%) SAP
6 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow