diff --git a/test_requirements.txt b/test_requirements.txt
index 07cdd8383f4a..8aa3f58e20ad 100644
--- a/test_requirements.txt
+++ b/test_requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pytest-rerunfailures
 pytest-xdist
 codacy-coverage
 hypothesis<5.6.0 # large number of warnings due to change in 5.6.0 https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html#v5-6-0
-mypy==0.782
+mypy==0.942
 git+https://github.com/QCoDeS/pyvisa-sim.git
 lxml
 codecov