Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 637 877
Rank change year-on-year +39 +240 +59
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 114 22 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.050% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.056% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 58 7 0
10th Percentile £72,500 £64,000 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile - £93,750 -
90th Percentile £107,375 £97,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 85,551 39,541 91,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.78% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,475 22,949 67,336
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £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 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +12 93 £100,000 +25.00% 38
London +12 60 £100,000 +14.29% 25
UK excluding London -15 37 £100,000 +25.00% 11
Work from Home +48 22 £100,000 +35.59% 15
North West +13 11 £100,000 +25.00% 1
North of England -31 11 £100,000 +25.00% 1
West Midlands - 10 £85,000 - 1
Midlands - 10 £85,000 - 1
South West - 9 £100,000 - 3
Scotland - 5 - -
South East - 2 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 82 (71.93%) AI
2 40 (35.09%) Generative AI
3 28 (24.56%) Machine Learning
4 24 (21.05%) AWS
4 24 (21.05%) LLM
5 22 (19.30%) Azure
6 21 (18.42%) Python
7 16 (14.04%) Analytics
7 16 (14.04%) GCP
8 15 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 13 (11.40%) Information Security
9 13 (11.40%) MongoDB
9 13 (11.40%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 13 (11.40%) Software Engineering
10 12 (10.53%) Observability
10 12 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (9.65%) AIOps
12 10 (8.77%) CI/CD
12 10 (8.77%) Data Modelling
12 10 (8.77%) Presales
12 10 (8.77%) Regulatory Compliance
13 9 (7.89%) Data Science
13 9 (7.89%) MLOps
14 8 (7.02%) AI Transformation
14 8 (7.02%) Data Architecture
14 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
14 8 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 7 (6.14%) API Design

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 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.05%) AWS
2 22 (19.30%) Azure
3 16 (14.04%) GCP
4 6 (5.26%) Serverless
5 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.63%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.75%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.88%) Collibra
8 1 (0.88%) dbt
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub
8 1 (0.88%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.39%) Redis
4 4 (3.51%) Pinecone
4 4 (3.51%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.75%) DB2
5 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.88%) Metadata
6 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (1.75%) MLflow
General
1 20 (17.54%) Law
2 10 (8.77%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.14%) Games
4 6 (5.26%) Finance
5 5 (4.39%) Banking
5 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Front Office
8 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.88%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.14%) LangChain
2 6 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.26%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.39%) LangGraph
3 5 (4.39%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (3.51%) CrewAI
4 4 (3.51%) Faiss
4 4 (3.51%) RESTful
5 2 (1.75%) Kafka
5 2 (1.75%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.75%) REST
6 1 (0.88%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.88%) NLTK
6 1 (0.88%) pgvector
6 1 (0.88%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (0.88%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.88%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (11.40%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.26%) Low-Code
3 6 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (4.39%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (71.93%) AI
2 40 (35.09%) Generative AI
3 28 (24.56%) Machine Learning
4 24 (21.05%) LLM
5 16 (14.04%) Analytics
6 15 (13.16%) Roadmaps
7 13 (11.40%) Information Security
7 13 (11.40%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 13 (11.40%) Software Engineering
8 12 (10.53%) Observability
8 12 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (9.65%) AIOps
10 10 (8.77%) CI/CD
10 10 (8.77%) Data Modelling
10 10 (8.77%) Presales
10 10 (8.77%) Regulatory Compliance
11 9 (7.89%) Data Science
11 9 (7.89%) MLOps
12 8 (7.02%) AI Transformation
12 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.42%) Python
2 6 (5.26%) Go
3 3 (2.63%) SQL
4 2 (1.75%) C#
4 2 (1.75%) Java
4 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.75%) R
5 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (2.63%) CISSP
1 3 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.75%) Degree
2 2 (1.75%) PhD
3 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) GRC
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.26%) Docker
2 3 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.75%) Ansible
2 2 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (6.14%) OpenAI
2 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.63%) Google
4 2 (1.75%) Databricks
4 2 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (0.88%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.88%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.88%) IBM
5 1 (0.88%) Informatica
5 1 (0.88%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.88%) Salesforce