---
title: "Deletes a Job."
method: DELETE
path: "/jobs/{jobId}"
tags: ["Jobs"]
---

# Deletes a Job.

`DELETE /jobs/{jobId}`

Deleting a Job also deletes all Tasks that are part of that Job, and all Job
statistics. This also overrides the retention period for Task data; that is, if
the Job contains Tasks which are still retained on Compute Nodes, the Batch
services deletes those Tasks' working directories and all their contents.  When
a Delete Job request is received, the Batch service sets the Job to the
deleting state. All update operations on a Job that is in deleting state will
fail with status code 409 (Conflict), with additional information indicating
that the Job is being deleted.

## Path parameters

- `jobId` string, required

## Query parameters

- `api-version` string, required
- `timeOut` integer
- `force` boolean

## Headers

- `client-request-id` string
- `return-client-request-id` boolean
- `ocp-date` string, date-time-rfc7231
- `If-Modified-Since` string, date-time-rfc7231
- `If-Unmodified-Since` string, date-time-rfc7231
- `If-Match` string
- `If-None-Match` string

## Response `202`

The request has been accepted for processing, but processing has not yet completed.

## Other responses

- `default` — An unexpected error response.

---

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