diff --git a/e2e/Utils.ts b/e2e/Utils.ts
index 614831acae17..52945c6f1041 100644
--- a/e2e/Utils.ts
+++ b/e2e/Utils.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {ExecaReturnValue, sync as spawnSync} from 'execa';
 import makeDir = require('make-dir');
 import rimraf = require('rimraf');
 import dedent = require('dedent');
+import which = require('which');
 
 interface RunResult extends ExecaReturnValue {
   status: number;
@@ -260,3 +261,19 @@ export const normalizeIcons = (str: string) => {
     .replace(new RegExp('\u00D7', 'g'), '\u2715')
     .replace(new RegExp('\u221A', 'g'), '\u2713');
 };
+
+// Certain environments (like CITGM and GH Actions) do not come with mercurial installed
+let hgIsInstalled: boolean | null = null;
+
+export const testIfHg = (...args: Parameters<typeof test>) => {
+  if (hgIsInstalled === null) {
+    hgIsInstalled = which.sync('hg', {nothrow: true}) !== null;
+  }
+
+  if (hgIsInstalled) {
+    test(...args);
+  } else {
+    console.warn('Mercurial (hg) is not installed - skipping some tests');
+    test.skip(...args);
+  }
+};
diff --git a/e2e/__tests__/jestChangedFiles.test.ts b/e2e/__tests__/jestChangedFiles.test.ts
index 5b8e3014cd7b..480e1d966187 100644
--- a/e2e/__tests__/jestChangedFiles.test.ts
+++ b/e2e/__tests__/jestChangedFiles.test.ts
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 import {wrap} from 'jest-snapshot-serializer-raw';
 import {findRepos, getChangedFilesForRoots} from 'jest-changed-files';
 import {skipSuiteOnWindows} from '@jest/test-utils';
-import which = require('which');
-import {cleanup, run, writeFiles} from '../Utils';
+import {cleanup, run, testIfHg, writeFiles} from '../Utils';
 import runJest from '../runJest';
 
 skipSuiteOnWindows();
@@ -24,14 +23,6 @@ const HG = 'hg --config ui.username=jest_test';
 beforeEach(() => cleanup(DIR));
 afterEach(() => cleanup(DIR));
 
-// Certain environments (like CITGM and GH Actions) do not come with mercurial installed
-const hgIsInstalled = which.sync('hg', {nothrow: true}) !== null;
-const testIfHg = hgIsInstalled ? test : test.skip;
-
-if (!hgIsInstalled) {
-  console.warn('Mercurial (hg) is not installed - skipping some tests');
-}
-
 testIfHg('gets hg SCM roots and dedupes them', async () => {
   writeFiles(DIR, {
     'first-repo/file1.txt': 'file1',
diff --git a/e2e/__tests__/onlyChanged.test.ts b/e2e/__tests__/onlyChanged.test.ts
index 3a7ff38da596..52abdd6d0613 100644
--- a/e2e/__tests__/onlyChanged.test.ts
+++ b/e2e/__tests__/onlyChanged.test.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import {tmpdir} from 'os';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import runJest from '../runJest';
-import {cleanup, run, writeFiles} from '../Utils';
+import {cleanup, run, testIfHg, writeFiles} from '../Utils';
 
 const DIR = path.resolve(tmpdir(), 'jest_only_changed');
 const GIT = 'git -c user.name=jest_test -c user.email=jest_test@test.com';
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ test('onlyChanged in config is overwritten by --all or testPathPattern', () => {
   expect(stderr).toMatch(/PASS __tests__(\/|\\)file3.test.js/);
 });
 
-test('gets changed files for hg', async () => {
+testIfHg('gets changed files for hg', async () => {
   if (process.env.CI) {
     // Circle and Travis have very old version of hg (v2, and current
     // version is v4.2) and its API changed since then and not compatible