diff --git a/.circleci/docker/common/install_conda.sh b/.circleci/docker/common/install_conda.sh
index 0f445a51addbc6..3a9fb407335b36 100755
--- a/.circleci/docker/common/install_conda.sh
+++ b/.circleci/docker/common/install_conda.sh
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ if [ -n "$ANACONDA_PYTHON_VERSION" ]; then
   # TODO: Why is scipy pinned
   # Pin MyPy version because new errors are likely to appear with each release
   # Pin hypothesis to avoid flakiness: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/31136
+  # Pin coverage so we can use COVERAGE_RCFILE
   as_jenkins pip install --progress-bar off pytest \
     scipy==1.1.0 \
     scikit-image \
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ if [ -n "$ANACONDA_PYTHON_VERSION" ]; then
     llvmlite \
     unittest-xml-reporting \
     boto3==1.16.34 \
-    coverage \
+    coverage==5.5 \
     hypothesis==4.53.2 \
     mypy==0.812 \
     tb-nightly
diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
index ad54d65b7ec98a..428fe5243a35a9 100644
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 [run]
+plugins =
+    coverage_plugins.jit_plugin
 omit =
     */tmp*
     */Temp/*
diff --git a/.jenkins/pytorch/test.sh b/.jenkins/pytorch/test.sh
index b0d768e4c84788..3daccd99c391ee 100755
--- a/.jenkins/pytorch/test.sh
+++ b/.jenkins/pytorch/test.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ fi
 if [[ "$BUILD_ENVIRONMENT" == *coverage* ]]; then
   export PYTORCH_COLLECT_COVERAGE=1
   export COVERAGE_RCFILE="$PWD/.coveragerc" # coverage config file needed for plug-ins and settings to work
+  pip install -e tools/coverage_plugins_package # allows coverage to run with JitPlugin for JIT coverage
 fi
 
 if [[ "$BUILD_ENVIRONMENT" == *cuda* ]]; then
diff --git a/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test-helpers/setup_pytorch_env.bat b/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test-helpers/setup_pytorch_env.bat
index 2766bf0e58e6d4..3eeeb3c5b490a4 100644
--- a/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test-helpers/setup_pytorch_env.bat
+++ b/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test-helpers/setup_pytorch_env.bat
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ pip install "ninja==1.10.0.post1" future "hypothesis==4.53.2" "librosa>=0.6.2" p
 
 :: TODO: All sharded configs run coverage. We should change that to be only one config, but right now we will just
 :: install coverage everywhere. Tracked: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/56264
-python -mpip install coverage
+python -mpip install coverage==5.5
+python -mpip install -e tools/coverage_plugins_package
 
 if %errorlevel% neq 0 ( exit /b %errorlevel% )
 
diff --git a/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test.sh b/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test.sh
index 2ffac515452350..177fc8014ff31a 100755
--- a/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test.sh
+++ b/.jenkins/pytorch/win-test.sh
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ echo "TEST PASSED"
 
 if [[ "${BUILD_ENVIRONMENT}" == "pytorch-win-vs2019-cuda10-cudnn7-py3" ]]; then
   pushd "$TEST_DIR"
-  python -mpip install coverage
+  python -mpip install coverage==5.5
+  python -mpip install -e "$PROJECT_DIR/tools/coverage_plugins_package"
   echo "Generating XML coverage report"
   time python -mcoverage xml
   popd
diff --git a/scripts/onnx/test.sh b/scripts/onnx/test.sh
index d359efd8627000..efc9b31f5cceae 100755
--- a/scripts/onnx/test.sh
+++ b/scripts/onnx/test.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ fi
 
 pip install pytest scipy hypothesis # these may not be necessary
 pip install pytest-cov # installing since `coverage run -m pytest ..` doesn't work
+pip install -e tools/coverage_plugins_package # allows coverage to run w/o failing due to a missing plug-in
 
 # realpath might not be available on MacOS
 script_path=$(python -c "import os; import sys; print(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1]))" "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")