diff --git a/docker/buildkite/Dockerfile b/docker/buildkite/Dockerfile
index dfdb28a340b..5f7c88c6864 100644
--- a/docker/buildkite/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/buildkite/Dockerfile
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ RUN curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
 RUN python get-pip.py
 RUN pip install -U 'pip<21'
 RUN pip install PyYAML==3.13 cqlsh==5.0.4
-
+RUN pip install futures
 # verbose test output from `make`, can be disabled with V=0
 ENV V=1