diff --git a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
index 9a4756dad06..34989a9a4da 100644
--- a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
+++ b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
                 export USE_KUBEMARK="true"
                 export KUBEMARK_TESTS="starting\s30\spods\sper\snode"
                 # Override defaults to be independent from GCE defaults and set kubemark parameters
-                export NUM_NODES="2"
+                export NUM_NODES="3"
                 export MASTER_SIZE="n1-standard-1"
                 export NODE_SIZE="n1-standard-1"
                 export KUBE_GCE_ZONE="us-central1-f"