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 5 July 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 653 882
Rank change year-on-year +77 +229 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 180 22 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.046% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.051% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 95 9 5
10th Percentile £71,349 £69,250 £94,750
25th Percentile £84,375 £77,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £104,100 £102,750 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 91,485 43,049 99,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 89.92% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62,795 25,127 71,233
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -5.66%

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 5 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 14 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 5 July 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 +62 142 £100,000 +25.00% 78
UK excluding London +15 81 £85,000 +6.25% 49
London +36 79 £100,000 +8.11% 45
Work from Home +23 33 £100,000 +35.59% 29
North of England -7 28 £100,000 +25.00% 22
North West +13 25 £100,000 +25.00% 16
Scotland - 16 £77,415 - 8
South West - 15 £100,000 - 3
Midlands - 14 £85,000 - 4
West Midlands - 14 £85,000 - 4
North East - 3 £85,000 - 5
South East - 3 - - 4
Wales - 3 £80,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,415 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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.

1 149 (82.78%) AI
2 61 (33.89%) Generative AI
3 38 (21.11%) LLM
3 38 (21.11%) Machine Learning
4 30 (16.67%) AWS
4 30 (16.67%) Azure
5 28 (15.56%) Python
6 23 (12.78%) AI Transformation
7 21 (11.67%) Roadmaps
8 18 (10.00%) GCP
8 18 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 17 (9.44%) Analytics
9 17 (9.44%) Software Engineering
10 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
11 15 (8.33%) Observability
12 14 (7.78%) Data Transformation
13 13 (7.22%) CI/CD
13 13 (7.22%) MongoDB
14 12 (6.67%) AIOps
14 12 (6.67%) Security Cleared
14 12 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (6.11%) OpenAI
15 11 (6.11%) Validation
16 10 (5.56%) API Design
16 10 (5.56%) Data Architecture
16 10 (5.56%) Data Science
16 10 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
16 10 (5.56%) MLOps
16 10 (5.56%) Runbook
16 10 (5.56%) Test Automation

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 (0.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.67%) AWS
1 30 (16.67%) Azure
2 18 (10.00%) GCP
3 8 (4.44%) Serverless
4 6 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.22%) dbt
5 4 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.67%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.67%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.11%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.11%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.22%) MongoDB
2 9 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.22%) Pinecone
3 4 (2.22%) Weaviate
4 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.67%) Redis
5 2 (1.11%) Db2
5 2 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.56%) Metadata
6 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Power BI
6 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 36 (20.00%) Finance
2 15 (8.33%) Banking
2 15 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.78%) Law
4 8 (4.44%) Games
5 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.11%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.11%) Legal
7 2 (1.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.11%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Billing
8 1 (0.56%) Front Office
8 1 (0.56%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.44%) LangChain
1 8 (4.44%) PyTorch
1 8 (4.44%) TensorFlow
2 6 (3.33%) RESTful
3 5 (2.78%) LangGraph
3 5 (2.78%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (2.22%) CrewAI
4 4 (2.22%) Faiss
5 3 (1.67%) Hugging Face
5 3 (1.67%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.11%) REST
6 2 (1.11%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.56%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (0.56%) Kafka
7 1 (0.56%) NLTK
7 1 (0.56%) Node.js
7 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.56%) pgvector
7 1 (0.56%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.56%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.56%) AI Agents
2 16 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.44%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.44%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.11%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.11%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.56%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.56%) Life Science
8 1 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.11%) Linux
1 2 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (82.78%) AI
2 61 (33.89%) Generative AI
3 38 (21.11%) LLM
3 38 (21.11%) Machine Learning
4 23 (12.78%) AI Transformation
5 21 (11.67%) Roadmaps
6 18 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 17 (9.44%) Analytics
7 17 (9.44%) Software Engineering
8 15 (8.33%) Observability
9 14 (7.78%) Data Transformation
10 13 (7.22%) CI/CD
11 12 (6.67%) AIOps
11 12 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (6.11%) Validation
13 10 (5.56%) API Design
13 10 (5.56%) Data Architecture
13 10 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (5.56%) MLOps
13 10 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.56%) Python
2 8 (4.44%) Go
3 6 (3.33%) SQL
4 5 (2.78%) C#
4 5 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.22%) Java
6 3 (1.67%) R
7 2 (1.11%) C++
7 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.67%) CISSP
3 3 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.56%) Degree
5 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) GRC
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) Ansible
2 1 (0.56%) Grafana
2 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.11%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (1.11%) Oracle
5 1 (0.56%) Avaya
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.56%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.56%) Genesys
5 1 (0.56%) IBM
5 1 (0.56%) Informatica
5 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.56%) SAP