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 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 629 836
Rank change year-on-year -18 +207 +168
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 49 16 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.036% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.040% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 25 7 3
10th Percentile £72,500 £64,000 -
25th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile - £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,125 £97,500 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -

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 68,326 39,752 79,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 90.66% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 43,620 23,240 61,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 9 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 15 March 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 -9 34 £100,000 +25.00% 41
London +24 25 £100,000 +29.03% 33
UK excluding London -12 13 £100,000 +25.00% 26
Work from Home +50 7 £121,250 - 15
North West -1 7 £100,000 +25.00%
North of England -40 7 £100,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland - 4 - - 5
South East - 1 - - 15
South West - 1 £100,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 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 38 (77.55%) AI
2 16 (32.65%) Azure
3 15 (30.61%) AWS
4 13 (26.53%) GCP
4 13 (26.53%) Generative AI
4 13 (26.53%) Machine Learning
5 12 (24.49%) LLM
6 11 (22.45%) Python
7 9 (18.37%) MongoDB
7 9 (18.37%) Presales
8 8 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (14.29%) AIOps
9 7 (14.29%) Analytics
9 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 7 (14.29%) Data Science
9 7 (14.29%) Edge Computing
10 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
10 6 (12.24%) MLOps
10 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
11 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
11 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (10.20%) Data Engineering
11 5 (10.20%) Docker
11 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (10.20%) Information Security
11 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
11 5 (10.20%) Microservices
11 5 (10.20%) Performance Tuning

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 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 15 (30.61%) AWS
3 13 (26.53%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) Serverless
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.08%) dbt
6 2 (4.08%) GitHub
6 2 (4.08%) LangSmith
6 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (2.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.20%) Redis
3 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.08%) DB2
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.04%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.04%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) MLflow
General
1 13 (26.53%) Law
2 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Finance
4 5 (10.20%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Games
6 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) Kafka
1 2 (4.08%) LangChain
1 2 (4.08%) LangGraph
1 2 (4.08%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (4.08%) PyTorch
1 2 (4.08%) REST
1 2 (4.08%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.04%) CrewAI
2 1 (2.04%) Faiss
2 1 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.20%) AI Agents
3 4 (8.16%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) AI
2 13 (26.53%) Generative AI
2 13 (26.53%) Machine Learning
3 12 (24.49%) LLM
4 9 (18.37%) Presales
5 8 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (14.29%) AIOps
6 7 (14.29%) Analytics
6 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.29%) Data Science
6 7 (14.29%) Edge Computing
7 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
7 6 (12.24%) MLOps
7 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
7 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.20%) Microservices
8 5 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (10.20%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) Python
2 2 (4.08%) Go
2 2 (4.08%) Java
3 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) CISSP
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) PhD
2 3 (6.12%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) GRC
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Grafana
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Databricks
2 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) IBM