Artificial Intelligence Architect Jobs

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 899 984
Rank change year-on-year +222 +85 +235
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 23 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.005% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £66,125 - £124,000
25th Percentile £72,500 - £130,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £140,000
75th Percentile £97,500 - £145,000
90th Percentile - - £148,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

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 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 6 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 4 May 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 +198 23 £82,500 - 18
London +117 19 £85,000 - 15
UK excluding London +201 3 £80,000 - 7
North of England - 3 £80,000 -
North West - 3 £80,000 -
Work from Home - 2 £73,750 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 21 (91.30%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (73.91%) Machine Learning
3 16 (69.57%) Azure
3 16 (69.57%) Generative AI
4 15 (65.22%) Degree
4 15 (65.22%) Natural Language Processing
4 15 (65.22%) Data Science
5 14 (60.87%) Conversational UI
5 14 (60.87%) Python
5 14 (60.87%) LLM
5 14 (60.87%) Azure Certification
6 13 (56.52%) Conversational AI
6 13 (56.52%) MLOps
6 13 (56.52%) OpenAI
6 13 (56.52%) TOGAF
7 12 (52.17%) Computer Science
7 12 (52.17%) Analytics
7 12 (52.17%) Data Privacy
7 12 (52.17%) Mentoring
7 12 (52.17%) Azure AI
8 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (47.83%) Roadmaps
8 11 (47.83%) Natural Language Understanding
8 11 (47.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 11 (47.83%) Product Roadmap
8 11 (47.83%) User Experience
8 11 (47.83%) Algorithms
8 11 (47.83%) Workday
8 11 (47.83%) GDPR
8 11 (47.83%) Computer Science Degree

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 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure AI
3 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Copilot
3 11 (47.83%) SaaS
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) MLflow
General
1 11 (47.83%) Law
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
1 1 (4.35%) LangChain
1 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Algorithms
1 11 (47.83%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (73.91%) Machine Learning
3 16 (69.57%) Generative AI
4 15 (65.22%) Data Science
4 15 (65.22%) Natural Language Processing
5 14 (60.87%) Conversational UI
5 14 (60.87%) LLM
6 13 (56.52%) Conversational AI
6 13 (56.52%) MLOps
6 13 (56.52%) TOGAF
7 12 (52.17%) Analytics
7 12 (52.17%) Computer Science
7 12 (52.17%) Data Privacy
7 12 (52.17%) Mentoring
8 11 (47.83%) Natural Language Understanding
8 11 (47.83%) Performance Monitoring
8 11 (47.83%) Product Roadmap
8 11 (47.83%) Roadmaps
8 11 (47.83%) User Experience
9 3 (13.04%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Scala
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Degree
2 14 (60.87%) Azure Certification
3 11 (47.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.35%) PhD
5 1 (4.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (47.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 11 (47.83%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) OpenAI
2 11 (47.83%) Google
2 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (47.83%) SAP
2 11 (47.83%) ServiceNow
2 11 (47.83%) Workday
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Genesys