diff --git a/.jenkins/requirements-test-hpu.txt b/.jenkins/requirements-test-hpu.txt
index 354847f06d26..6ccaf11ff54d 100644
--- a/.jenkins/requirements-test-hpu.txt
+++ b/.jenkins/requirements-test-hpu.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 lm_eval==0.4.8
 pytest
 pytest_asyncio
-transformers==4.52.4 # workaround for Qwen2.5 issue with transformers 4.53.0
+transformers==5.5.0 # workaround for Qwen2.5 issue with transformers 4.53.0