diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/tests/test_metrics.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/tests/test_metrics.py
index 01c9487ea8..f83759317b 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/tests/test_metrics.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/tests/test_metrics.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import threading
 import time
+from platform import python_implementation
 from timeit import default_timer
 
+from pytest import mark
+
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.celery import CeleryInstrumentor
 from opentelemetry.test.test_base import TestBase
 
@@ -62,6 +65,9 @@ def test_basic_metric(self):
             est_value_delta=200,
         )
 
+    @mark.skipif(
+        python_implementation() == "PyPy", reason="Fails randomly in pypy"
+    )
     def test_metric_uninstrument(self):
         CeleryInstrumentor().instrument()