diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-actions-incremental.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-actions-incremental.yml
index c4e8f1af7e5a2..ce4078e4abf9e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-actions-incremental.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-actions-incremental.yml
@@ -835,7 +835,9 @@ jobs:
       # We do this so we can get better analytics for the downloaded version of the build images
       - name: Update Docker Client User Agent
         run: |
-          cat <<< $(jq '.HttpHeaders += {"User-Agent": "Quarkus-CI-Docker-Client"}' ~/.docker/config.json) > ~/.docker/config.json
+          if [ -f ~/.docker/config.json ]; then
+            cat <<< $(jq '.HttpHeaders += {"User-Agent": "Quarkus-CI-Docker-Client"}' ~/.docker/config.json) > ~/.docker/config.json
+          fi
       - name: Build
         env:
           TEST_MODULES: ${{matrix.test-modules}}