diff --git a/test/e2e/autoscaler_test.go b/test/e2e/autoscaler_test.go
index e99908e8c0..4fb2b8f682 100644
--- a/test/e2e/autoscaler_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/autoscaler_test.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ var _ = Describe("When using the autoscaler with Cluster API using ClusterClass
 				},
 				InfrastructureAPIGroup:            "vmware.infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io",
 				InfrastructureMachineTemplateKind: "vspheremachinetemplates",
-				AutoscalerVersion:                 "v1.30.0",
+				AutoscalerVersion:                 "v1.31.0",
 				ScaleToAndFromZero:                true,
 				// We have no connectivity from the workload cluster to the kind management cluster in CI so we
 				// can't deploy the autoscaler to the workload cluster.