diff --git a/packages/jest-transform/src/ScriptTransformer.ts b/packages/jest-transform/src/ScriptTransformer.ts
index 63e3ca1e2d7a..455b3f851611 100644
--- a/packages/jest-transform/src/ScriptTransformer.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-transform/src/ScriptTransformer.ts
@@ -220,7 +220,9 @@ class ScriptTransformer {
     const cacheFilenamePrefix = path
       .basename(filename, path.extname(filename))
       .replace(/\W/g, '');
-    return slash(path.join(cacheDir, `${cacheFilenamePrefix}_${cacheKey}`));
+    return slash(
+      path.join(cacheDir, `${cacheFilenamePrefix}_${cacheKey}`),
+    );
   }
 
   private _getFileCachePath(
@@ -240,7 +242,9 @@ class ScriptTransformer {
   ): Promise<string> {
     const cacheKey = await this._getCacheKeyAsync(content, filename, options);
 
-    return this._createCachedFilename(filename, cacheKey);
+    const tmp = this._createCachedFilename(filename, cacheKey);
+    // createDirectory(path.dirname(tmp));
+    return tmp;
   }
 
   private _getTransformPath(filename: string) {
@@ -462,6 +466,7 @@ class ScriptTransformer {
     const {transformer, transformerConfig = {}} =
       this._getTransformer(filename) ?? {};
     const cacheFilePath = this._getFileCachePath(filename, content, options);
+    createDirectory(path.dirname(cacheFilePath));
     const sourceMapPath = `${cacheFilePath}.map`;
     // Ignore cache if `config.cache` is set (--no-cache)
     const code = this._config.cache ? readCodeCacheFile(cacheFilePath) : null;
@@ -522,6 +527,7 @@ class ScriptTransformer {
       content,
       options,
     );
+    createDirectory(path.dirname(cacheFilePath));
     const sourceMapPath = `${cacheFilePath}.map`;
     // Ignore cache if `config.cache` is set (--no-cache)
     const code = this._config.cache ? readCodeCacheFile(cacheFilePath) : null;