diff --git a/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml
index 1d2aa6350a5..c9ac444901b 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/jenkins_data_engineering_new/defaults/main.yml
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ JENKINS_DATA_ENGINEERING_EXTRA_PKGS:
   - libgraphviz-dev
   - libxmlsec1-dev
   - zip
+  - jq
 
 # See https://www.vaultproject.io/downloads for latest version.
 DE_JENKINS_VAULT_CLI_VERSION: 1.9.4