Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £98,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 650 876
Rank change year-on-year +42 +226 +35
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 128 21 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.047% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.053% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 67 6 3
10th Percentile £72,000 £64,375 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,500 £80,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% -20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,125 £107,500
90th Percentile £107,750 £93,750 £112,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £99,250 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year +24.06% - -

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 86,875 39,687 99,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.56% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 58,739 22,427 72,303
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -6.54%

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 June 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 8 June 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 +26 104 £100,000 +25.00% 137
London +30 61 £100,000 +11.11% 96
UK excluding London -20 50 £99,250 +24.06% 57
Work from Home +30 23 £100,000 +35.59% 63
North West +9 15 £100,000 +25.00% 12
North of England -31 15 £100,000 +25.00% 13
South West - 12 £100,000 - 8
West Midlands - 11 £85,000 - 5
Midlands - 11 £85,000 - 6
Scotland - 9 - - 6
South East - 3 - - 18

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 99 (77.34%) AI
2 47 (36.72%) Generative AI
3 33 (25.78%) Machine Learning
4 30 (23.44%) LLM
5 26 (20.31%) Azure
6 25 (19.53%) AWS
7 23 (17.97%) Python
8 18 (14.06%) Roadmaps
9 16 (12.50%) Analytics
9 16 (12.50%) GCP
10 15 (11.72%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 14 (10.94%) AI Transformation
12 13 (10.16%) MongoDB
12 13 (10.16%) Observability
12 13 (10.16%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (8.59%) Data Architecture
14 10 (7.81%) AIOps
14 10 (7.81%) CI/CD
14 10 (7.81%) Data Modelling
14 10 (7.81%) Regulatory Compliance
15 9 (7.03%) Data Science
15 9 (7.03%) Information Security
15 9 (7.03%) Microsoft
15 9 (7.03%) Presales
15 9 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 8 (6.25%) API Design
16 8 (6.25%) Containerisation
16 8 (6.25%) Data Governance
16 8 (6.25%) 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 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.31%) Azure
2 25 (19.53%) AWS
3 16 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (4.69%) Serverless
5 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.34%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.34%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.78%) Collibra
8 1 (0.78%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.78%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.16%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.91%) Redis
4 4 (3.13%) Pinecone
4 4 (3.13%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.56%) Db2
5 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.78%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.78%) Metadata
6 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 16 (12.50%) Finance
1 16 (12.50%) Law
2 12 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.81%) Banking
4 6 (4.69%) Games
5 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Front Office
8 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.78%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.47%) LangChain
2 6 (4.69%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.69%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.91%) LangGraph
3 5 (3.91%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (3.13%) CrewAI
4 4 (3.13%) Faiss
4 4 (3.13%) RESTful
5 2 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (1.56%) REST
6 1 (0.78%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.78%) Kafka
6 1 (0.78%) NLTK
6 1 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.78%) pgvector
6 1 (0.78%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (0.78%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.78%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (11.72%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.69%) Low-Code
3 6 (4.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) Life Science
6 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.56%) Linux
1 2 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (77.34%) AI
2 47 (36.72%) Generative AI
3 33 (25.78%) Machine Learning
4 30 (23.44%) LLM
5 18 (14.06%) Roadmaps
6 16 (12.50%) Analytics
7 15 (11.72%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 14 (10.94%) AI Transformation
9 13 (10.16%) Observability
9 13 (10.16%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (8.59%) Data Architecture
11 10 (7.81%) AIOps
11 10 (7.81%) CI/CD
11 10 (7.81%) Data Modelling
11 10 (7.81%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (7.03%) Data Science
12 9 (7.03%) Information Security
12 9 (7.03%) Presales
12 9 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.97%) Python
2 6 (4.69%) Go
3 5 (3.91%) C#
3 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.91%) SQL
4 3 (2.34%) R
5 2 (1.56%) Java
5 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (2.34%) CISSP
1 3 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.78%) Degree
3 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.56%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) GRC
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.69%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.78%) Ansible
2 1 (0.78%) Grafana
2 1 (0.78%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.47%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.34%) Google
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Databricks
5 1 (0.78%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.78%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.78%) IBM
5 1 (0.78%) Informatica
5 1 (0.78%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) SAP