Artificial Intelligence Architect Contracts

AI Architect
UK

The median AI Architect daily rate in the UK is £688 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 681 805
Rank change year-on-year +121 +124 -92
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 11 6 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.011% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.011% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 36
10th Percentile £620 £875 -
25th Percentile £631 £969 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £1,100 £700
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +57.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £809 - -
90th Percentile £984 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £813 - £575

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +112 7 £700 -36.36% 11
England +109 6 £813 -26.14% 18
UK excluding London - 5 £813 - 11
Midlands - 3 £1,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £1,000 -
South East - 2 £625 - 10
London +94 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Artificial Intelligence Architect contract 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 contract job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Use Case
3 3 (27.27%) Reference Data
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Twin
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
4 2 (18.18%) GDPR
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Big Data
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) CSSLP
5 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning

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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) CTI
1 1 (9.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) OLAP
2 1 (9.09%) OLTP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Reference Data
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) IVR
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
2 3 (27.27%) Digital Twin
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Threat Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Use Case
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) API Design
4 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Data Privacy
4 1 (9.09%) Data Transformation
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CSSLP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Avaya
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) Genesys
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) IBM
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle