diff --git a/.changeset/funny-toys-talk.md b/.changeset/funny-toys-talk.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e6a779ab8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/funny-toys-talk.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/codemods': patch
+---
+
+Fix execution of `jscodeshift` on windows.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/master-win.yml b/.github/workflows/master-win.yml
index 3850146388..c61ee4798b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/master-win.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/master-win.yml
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: verify type dependencies
         run: yarn lint:type-deps
 
+      # The core packages need to be built for the codemods tests to work
+      - name: build core packages
+        run: lerna run --scope @backstage/core-* build
+
       - name: test
         run: yarn lerna -- run test
         env:
diff --git a/packages/codemods/src/action.ts b/packages/codemods/src/action.ts
index 46e50ead77..c3eba8aecc 100644
--- a/packages/codemods/src/action.ts
+++ b/packages/codemods/src/action.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { relative as relativePath } from 'path';
 import { spawn } from 'child_process';
 import { Command } from 'commander';
 import { findPaths } from '@backstage/cli-common';
+import { platform } from 'os';
 import { ExitCodeError } from './errors';
 
 // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
@@ -50,8 +51,18 @@ export function createCodemodAction(name: string) {
 
     console.log(`Running jscodeshift with these arguments: ${args.join(' ')}`);
 
-    const jscodeshiftScript = require.resolve('.bin/jscodeshift');
-    const child = spawn(process.argv0, [jscodeshiftScript, ...args], {
+    let command;
+    if (platform() === 'win32') {
+      command = 'jscodeshift';
+    } else {
+      // jscodeshift ships a slightly broken bin script with windows
+      // line endings so we need to execute it using node rather than
+      // letting the `#!/usr/bin/env node` take care of it
+      command = process.argv0;
+      args.unshift(require.resolve('.bin/jscodeshift'));
+    }
+
+    const child = spawn(command, args, {
       stdio: 'inherit',
       shell: true,
       env: {
diff --git a/packages/codemods/src/tests/core-imports.test.ts b/packages/codemods/src/tests/core-imports.test.ts
index 90bc217d3e..e5924156b6 100644
--- a/packages/codemods/src/tests/core-imports.test.ts
+++ b/packages/codemods/src/tests/core-imports.test.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ function runTransform(source: string) {
     stats: () => undefined,
     report: () => undefined,
   };
-  return coreImportTransform({ source, file: 'test.ts' }, api);
+  const result = coreImportTransform({ source, file: 'test.ts' }, api);
+  return result?.split('\r\n').join('\n');
 }
 
 describe('core-imports', () => {