diff --git a/awx/api/filters.py b/awx/api/filters.py
index 4aa2a8385d..68b55110d1 100644
--- a/awx/api/filters.py
+++ b/awx/api/filters.py
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ class FieldLookupBackend(BaseFilterBackend):
                 raise ValueError('%s is not searchable' % new_lookup[:-8])
             new_lookups = []
             for rm_field in related_model._meta.fields:
-                if rm_field.name in ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'name', 'description'):
+                if rm_field.name in ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'name', 'description', 'playbook'):
                     new_lookups.append('{}__{}__icontains'.format(new_lookup[:-8], rm_field.name))
             return value, new_lookups
         else:
diff --git a/awx/api/views/__init__.py b/awx/api/views/__init__.py
index 9fc6d730e6..6b99c46e95 100644
--- a/awx/api/views/__init__.py
+++ b/awx/api/views/__init__.py
@@ -4176,12 +4176,14 @@ class UnifiedJobTemplateList(ListAPIView):
 
     model = models.UnifiedJobTemplate
     serializer_class = serializers.UnifiedJobTemplateSerializer
+    search_fields = ('description', 'name', 'jobtemplate__playbook',)
 
 
 class UnifiedJobList(ListAPIView):
 
     model = models.UnifiedJob
     serializer_class = serializers.UnifiedJobListSerializer
+    search_fields = ('description', 'name', 'job__playbook',)
 
 
 def redact_ansi(line):