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UiPath Automation Developer (succeeds UiRPA / UiARD)

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RANK #81 / 100 UPGRADE DEMAND Q4 2026 DATA
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CertBueno research, Q4 2026 index, published Oct 1, 2026. US market data. All figures USD.
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What the verdict means

UPGRADEValue eroding — stack toward an AI-integrated cert
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The analyst note

The read

This is the clearest case of AI substitution on the index. UiPath has retired its legacy developer certs — UiRPA and UiARD expire in October 2026 — and repositioned around 'agentic automation', which is the vendor itself calling classic screen-scraping RPA superseded. The figure describes that old world.

Who holds it

RPA developers who build and maintain bot estates in UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Power Automate. They're concentrated in banking, insurance and shared-services operations.

The case for the verdict

The vendor is retiring the credential tier, so the verdict moves down one notch to UPGRADE. Existing bot estates will need maintenance work for years yet, but new-build demand is shifting to LLM-agent frameworks. The migration path is spelled out for you: UiPath's own agentic automation track, or Power Platform.

The risk

The risk is the roadmap itself. When the vendor that certifies you retires your whole certification tier and rebrands the category, the erosion isn't a hypothetical — it has a date on it, and here that date is October 2026.

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Where it sits

Bottom half of the CertBueno Top 100.

This certification pays 26% below the Top 100 median.

Vendor

The only UiPath certification in the CertBueno Top 100.

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