diff --git a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
index 0997a57048..b5084695b9 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ gprof2dot
 atomicwrites==1.4.0
 flake8
 yamllint
+pip>=21.3 # PEP 660 – Editable installs for pyproject.toml based builds (wheel based)