diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 4d10509fd68a60006fe3a340db9ea7670902bf9e..d270db83483e9d22baded688bbe2c8c56eadd433 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ unittest_py39:
 
 unittest_py38:
   tags: [docker]
-  stage: unittest_py38
+  stage: unittest
   image: python:3.8
   script: &python_test_script
     - pip install nose pandas pytest pytest-cov gitignore-parser openpyxl>=3.0.7 xlrd==1.2 h5py