diff --git a/requirements_test.txt b/requirements_test.txt
index 7a59104adf..c35bd6d943 100644
--- a/requirements_test.txt
+++ b/requirements_test.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ contributors-txt>=0.7.4
 coveralls~=3.3
 coverage~=5.5
 pre-commit~=2.17
-pytest-cov~=3.0
+pytest-cov~=4.0
 contributors-txt>=0.7.3
 tbump~=6.3.2
 types-typed-ast; implementation_name=="cpython" and python_version<"3.8"