Artificial Intelligence Architect Job Trends

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 669 804
Rank change year-on-year +110 +135 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 234 25 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.050% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.056% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 131 10 5
10th Percentile £71,349 £63,625 £94,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £74,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £86,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -13.75% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,313 £103,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,000 £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 99,002 44,694 78,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.02% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,676 26,534 53,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -6.79%

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 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 15 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 August 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 +43 173 £98,500 +14.20% 289
UK excluding London +14 113 £85,000 +6.25% 95
London +33 93 £100,000 +5.26% 209
Work from Home +10 46 £100,000 +21.21% 86
North of England -13 33 £85,000 +6.25% 30
North West +23 28 £98,500 +23.13% 24
Scotland - 28 £74,830 - 19
West Midlands -7 18 £80,000 +8.47% 3
Midlands -12 18 £80,000 +8.47% 5
South West - 16 £100,000 - 6
North East - 5 £85,000 - 1
Wales - 5 £80,000 - 1
East of England - 5 £100,000 - 12
Northern Ireland - 5 £74,830 - 1
South East - 3 - - 22

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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.

1 197 (84.19%) AI
2 78 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 50 (21.37%) LLM
4 45 (19.23%) Machine Learning
5 36 (15.38%) AWS
6 32 (13.68%) Azure
7 29 (12.39%) Roadmaps
8 27 (11.54%) Python
9 26 (11.11%) AI Transformation
10 25 (10.68%) Analytics
11 24 (10.26%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 23 (9.83%) Microsoft
13 22 (9.40%) Security Cleared
14 21 (8.97%) GCP
15 20 (8.55%) OpenAI
16 18 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 17 (7.26%) Data Transformation
18 16 (6.84%) Observability
18 16 (6.84%) Software Engineering
19 15 (6.41%) Agile
19 15 (6.41%) CI/CD
19 15 (6.41%) Technical Architecture
19 15 (6.41%) Technical Leadership
20 14 (5.98%) Open Source
20 14 (5.98%) SC Cleared
21 13 (5.56%) Prompt Engineering
21 13 (5.56%) Validation
22 12 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
22 12 (5.13%) Data Architecture
22 12 (5.13%) Data Modelling

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 3 (1.28%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.38%) AWS
2 32 (13.68%) Azure
3 21 (8.97%) GCP
4 11 (4.70%) dbt
4 11 (4.70%) Serverless
5 9 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.14%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.28%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.28%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.85%) Vertex AI
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.43%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.27%) Broadband
2 2 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.14%) Pinecone
3 5 (2.14%) Weaviate
4 2 (0.85%) Db2
4 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.85%) Power BI
4 2 (0.85%) Redis
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.43%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.43%) Metadata
5 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
1 1 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 54 (23.08%) Finance
2 23 (9.83%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.97%) Banking
4 14 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.70%) Law
6 8 (3.42%) Games
7 5 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Billing
8 3 (1.28%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.28%) Public Speaking
8 3 (1.28%) Retail
9 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Military
9 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.42%) LangChain
2 7 (2.99%) PyTorch
2 7 (2.99%) TensorFlow
3 6 (2.56%) RESTful
4 5 (2.14%) Faiss
4 5 (2.14%) LangGraph
4 5 (2.14%) LlamaIndex
4 5 (2.14%) Model Context Protocol
5 4 (1.71%) CrewAI
5 4 (1.71%) Hugging Face
6 3 (1.28%) A2A Protocol
6 3 (1.28%) Node.js
6 3 (1.28%) REST
6 3 (1.28%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (0.43%) Middleware
7 1 (0.43%) NLTK
7 1 (0.43%) pgvector
7 1 (0.43%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.43%) SOAP
7 1 (0.43%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.54%) AI Agents
2 14 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.42%) Low-Code
4 8 (3.42%) Video\Live Streaming
5 7 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.85%) Blog
8 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.85%) Stable Diffusion
9 1 (0.43%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.43%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.43%) Life Science
9 1 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.28%) Windows
2 2 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (84.19%) AI
2 78 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 50 (21.37%) LLM
4 45 (19.23%) Machine Learning
5 29 (12.39%) Roadmaps
6 26 (11.11%) AI Transformation
7 25 (10.68%) Analytics
8 24 (10.26%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 18 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (7.26%) Data Transformation
11 16 (6.84%) Observability
11 16 (6.84%) Software Engineering
12 15 (6.41%) Agile
12 15 (6.41%) CI/CD
12 15 (6.41%) Technical Architecture
12 15 (6.41%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (5.98%) Open Source
14 13 (5.56%) Prompt Engineering
14 13 (5.56%) Validation
15 12 (5.13%) Intelligent Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.54%) Python
2 8 (3.42%) Go
3 5 (2.14%) C#
3 5 (2.14%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.14%) SQL
4 4 (1.71%) Java
5 3 (1.28%) R
6 2 (0.85%) C++
6 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.40%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.85%) Degree
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.28%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.55%) OpenAI
3 8 (3.42%) Google
4 3 (1.28%) Avaya
4 3 (1.28%) Cisco
4 3 (1.28%) Genesys
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle
5 2 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.43%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.43%) Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) Informatica
6 1 (0.43%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.43%) SAP
6 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow