diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b814d7a..8d3a502 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Changelog = "https://github.com/IBM/secrets-manager-python-sdk/blob/main/CHANGEL
 dev = [
     "coverage>=7.3.2,<8.0.0",
     "pylint>=3.0.0,<4.0.0",
-    "pytest>=8.4.0,<8.5.0",
+    "pytest>=9.0.2,<9.1.0",
     "pytest-cov>=7.0.0,<7.1.0",
     "pytest-rerunfailures>=3.1",
     "responses>=0.23.3,<1.0.0",