diff --git a/ci/docker/install/docs_requirements b/ci/docker/install/docs_requirements
index acc0db0dc98c..5d25a328af1f 100644
--- a/ci/docker/install/docs_requirements
+++ b/ci/docker/install/docs_requirements
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ mock==2.0.0
 nose==1.3.7
 nose-timer==0.7.3
 numpy>1.16.0
-pylint==1.8.3
+pylint==2.3.1; python_version >= '3.0'
 pypandoc==1.4
 recommonmark==0.4.0
 requests<2.19.0,>=2.18.4