diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 54d0f552546d..ff915b8be1a3 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Sphinx>=3.0.0
 qiskit-sphinx-theme>=1.6
 sphinx-autodoc-typehints==1.21.1  # revert to >=1.18 once the incompatibilities are fixed
 sphinx-design>=0.2.0
-pygments>=2.4
+pygments>=2.4,<2.15
 scikit-learn>=0.20.0
 scikit-quant<=0.7;platform_system != 'Windows'
 jax;platform_system != 'Windows'