diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.uc-flink.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.uc-flink.gradle
index c19f930d82b78488cac584f5923dd650546ff89f..554658a54c39aac31fcbdfb4e6d91cd30059968e 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.uc-flink.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/theodolite.uc-flink.gradle
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ dependencies {
     // These dependencies are used internally, and not exposed to consumers on their own compile classpath.
     implementation 'org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:2.2.0'
     implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:24.1-jre'
+    implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
     implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.6.1'
     compile project(':flink-commons')