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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 658 749
Rank change year-on-year +149 +91 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 315 22 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.044% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.049% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 169 10 6
10th Percentile £71,349 £72,875 £94,375
25th Percentile £85,000 £81,563 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £103,438
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,375 £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 109,260 44,699 69,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 89.81% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,288 25,844 39,771
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 9 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 9 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 +84 241 £100,000 +5.26% 510
UK excluding London +7 146 £85,000 +3.03% 134
London +55 135 £100,000 +2.56% 381
Work from Home +40 76 £100,000 +9.59% 113
North of England -20 54 £90,000 -5.26% 50
North West +17 41 £80,000 -15.79% 31
Scotland - 31 £77,415 - 18
Midlands -22 25 £85,000 +15.25% 15
West Midlands -25 18 £80,000 +8.47% 12
South West - 13 £100,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 9 £74,830 - 6
Yorkshire - 8 £95,000 - 17
East Midlands - 7 £95,000 - 3
East of England - 7 £100,000 - 12
Wales - 6 £80,000 - 1
North East - 5 £85,000 - 2
South East - 2 - - 23

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 249 (79.05%) AI
2 87 (27.62%) Generative AI
3 57 (18.10%) LLM
4 40 (12.70%) Machine Learning
5 38 (12.06%) Security Cleared
6 37 (11.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 36 (11.43%) AI Transformation
8 30 (9.52%) SC Cleared
9 29 (9.21%) Microsoft
10 26 (8.25%) AWS
10 26 (8.25%) Roadmaps
11 25 (7.94%) Azure
12 24 (7.62%) Analytics
12 24 (7.62%) Data Transformation
13 23 (7.30%) Use Case
14 22 (6.98%) Architecture Governance
14 22 (6.98%) Prompt Engineering
15 21 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (6.35%) GCP
16 20 (6.35%) Python
17 19 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
17 19 (6.03%) Data Architecture
18 18 (5.71%) CI/CD
18 18 (5.71%) Observability
18 18 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
19 16 (5.08%) OpenAI
19 16 (5.08%) Workflow
20 15 (4.76%) Agile
20 15 (4.76%) Data Protection
20 15 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 (0.95%) SAS
2 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (8.25%) AWS
2 25 (7.94%) Azure
3 20 (6.35%) GCP
4 13 (4.13%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.49%) dbt
6 7 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (1.90%) Serverless
8 5 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.59%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (1.27%) Azure AI
10 3 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.95%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.63%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.63%) n8n
11 2 (0.63%) Zapier
12 1 (0.32%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 1 (0.32%) Collibra
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.86%) Broadband
2 2 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.90%) MongoDB
1 6 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.63%) Metadata
2 2 (0.63%) Power BI
3 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
General
1 84 (26.67%) Finance
2 46 (14.60%) Banking
3 31 (9.84%) Social Skills
4 14 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.54%) Law
6 7 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.90%) Games
8 5 (1.59%) Retail
9 4 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Billing
10 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Marketing
11 2 (0.63%) Military
11 2 (0.63%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.90%) RESTful
2 5 (1.59%) Terraform
3 3 (0.95%) A2A Protocol
3 3 (0.95%) Hugging Face
3 3 (0.95%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (0.95%) Node.js
4 2 (0.63%) LangChain
4 2 (0.63%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.63%) REST
4 2 (0.63%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (0.63%) SOAP
4 2 (0.63%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.32%) Faiss
5 1 (0.32%) HTML
5 1 (0.32%) JSON
5 1 (0.32%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.32%) Middleware
5 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.52%) AI Agents
2 20 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.22%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.63%) Blog
7 2 (0.63%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.63%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.32%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.32%) CMDB
8 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.32%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.32%) Life Science
8 1 (0.32%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (79.05%) AI
2 87 (27.62%) Generative AI
3 57 (18.10%) LLM
4 40 (12.70%) Machine Learning
5 37 (11.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 36 (11.43%) AI Transformation
7 26 (8.25%) Roadmaps
8 24 (7.62%) Analytics
8 24 (7.62%) Data Transformation
9 23 (7.30%) Use Case
10 22 (6.98%) Architecture Governance
10 22 (6.98%) Prompt Engineering
11 21 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (6.03%) Data Architecture
13 18 (5.71%) CI/CD
13 18 (5.71%) Observability
13 18 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
14 16 (5.08%) Workflow
15 15 (4.76%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.35%) Python
2 6 (1.90%) Go
2 6 (1.90%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.59%) C#
3 5 (1.59%) SQL
4 3 (0.95%) R
4 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.63%) C++
5 2 (0.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (0.95%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.63%) Degree
6 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.95%) GRC
3 2 (0.63%) QA
4 1 (0.32%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.08%) OpenAI
3 12 (3.81%) Google
4 4 (1.27%) Workday
5 3 (0.95%) Avaya
5 3 (0.95%) Cisco
5 3 (0.95%) Genesys
6 2 (0.63%) LexisNexis
6 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.32%) Databricks
7 1 (0.32%) Foundry
7 1 (0.32%) Informatica
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle
7 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.32%) SAP