diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_rank_features.yml b/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_rank_features.yml
index a099e327c32f0..28a6ad826bc64 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_rank_features.yml
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_rank_features.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # TextExpansionQueryIT.java to create the token weights.
 setup:
   - skip:
+      version: ' - 8.10.99'
+      reason: "sparse_vector field type reintroduced in 8.11"
       features: headers
   - do:
       headers:
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_sparse_vector.yml b/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_sparse_vector.yml
index 796c42a47725a..37a572a78dfd0 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_sparse_vector.yml
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/src/yamlRestTest/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/text_expansion_search_sparse_vector.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 setup:
   - skip:
       features: headers
+      version: ' - 8.7.99'
+      reason: "text_expansion query reintroduced in 8.8"
   - do:
       headers:
         Authorization: "Basic eF9wYWNrX3Jlc3RfdXNlcjp4LXBhY2stdGVzdC1wYXNzd29yZA==" # run as x_pack_rest_user, i.e. the test setup superuser