diff --git a/perfkitbenchmarker/providers/gcp/bigquery.py b/perfkitbenchmarker/providers/gcp/bigquery.py
index aba197bcda..3d4e3ab7ff 100644
--- a/perfkitbenchmarker/providers/gcp/bigquery.py
+++ b/perfkitbenchmarker/providers/gcp/bigquery.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
 
-BQ_CLIENT_FILE = 'bq-java-client-2.7.jar'
+BQ_CLIENT_FILE = 'bq-java-client-2.11.jar'
 DEFAULT_TABLE_EXPIRATION = 3600 * 24 * 365  # seconds
 
 BQ_JDBC_INTERFACES = [
diff --git a/tests/providers/gcp/bigquery_test.py b/tests/providers/gcp/bigquery_test.py
index 93510096de..f627ebc3c9 100644
--- a/tests/providers/gcp/bigquery_test.py
+++ b/tests/providers/gcp/bigquery_test.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def RemoteCommand(self, command):
       return None, None
 
     expected_command = (
-        'java -cp bq-java-client-2.7.jar '
+        'java -cp bq-java-client-2.11.jar '
         'com.google.cloud.performance.edw.Single --project {} '
         '--credentials_file {} --dataset {} --query_file '
         '{}'