diff --git a/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation.go b/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation.go
index 840b8408420..dee7fb8719e 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation.go
@@ -404,10 +404,11 @@ func validatePodTemplateUpdate(spec, oldSpec batch.JobSpec, fldPath *field.Path,
 			// allow the NodeAffinity field to skip immutability checking
 			oldTemplate.Spec.Affinity.NodeAffinity = template.Spec.Affinity.NodeAffinity // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
 		}
-		oldTemplate.Spec.NodeSelector = template.Spec.NodeSelector // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
-		oldTemplate.Spec.Tolerations = template.Spec.Tolerations   // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
-		oldTemplate.Annotations = template.Annotations             // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
-		oldTemplate.Labels = template.Labels                       // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
+		oldTemplate.Spec.NodeSelector = template.Spec.NodeSelector       // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
+		oldTemplate.Spec.Tolerations = template.Spec.Tolerations         // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
+		oldTemplate.Annotations = template.Annotations                   // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
+		oldTemplate.Labels = template.Labels                             // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
+		oldTemplate.Spec.SchedulingGates = template.Spec.SchedulingGates // +k8s:verify-mutation:reason=clone
 	}
 	allErrs = append(allErrs, apivalidation.ValidateImmutableField(template, oldTemplate, fldPath.Child("template"))...)
 	return allErrs
diff --git a/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation_test.go b/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation_test.go
index 9fe06fada50..94ae7f222ac 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation_test.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/batch/validation/validation_test.go
@@ -1299,6 +1299,37 @@ func TestValidateJobUpdate(t *testing.T) {
 				AllowMutableSchedulingDirectives: true,
 			},
 		},
+		"immutable schedulingGates": {
+			old: batch.Job{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "abc", Namespace: metav1.NamespaceDefault},
+				Spec: batch.JobSpec{
+					Selector: validGeneratedSelector,
+					Template: validPodTemplateSpecForGenerated,
+				},
+			},
+			update: func(job *batch.Job) {
+				job.Spec.Template.Spec.SchedulingGates = append(job.Spec.Template.Spec.SchedulingGates, api.PodSchedulingGate{Name: "gate"})
+			},
+			err: &field.Error{
+				Type:  field.ErrorTypeInvalid,
+				Field: "spec.template",
+			},
+		},
+		"mutable schedulingGates": {
+			old: batch.Job{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "abc", Namespace: metav1.NamespaceDefault},
+				Spec: batch.JobSpec{
+					Selector: validGeneratedSelector,
+					Template: validPodTemplateSpecForGenerated,
+				},
+			},
+			update: func(job *batch.Job) {
+				job.Spec.Template.Spec.SchedulingGates = append(job.Spec.Template.Spec.SchedulingGates, api.PodSchedulingGate{Name: "gate"})
+			},
+			opts: JobValidationOptions{
+				AllowMutableSchedulingDirectives: true,
+			},
+		},
 		"update completions and parallelism to same value is valid": {
 			old: batch.Job{
 				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "abc", Namespace: metav1.NamespaceDefault},