diff --git a/python/helpers/requirements.txt b/python/helpers/requirements.txt
index 21335ab7e81..c27eecb8a09 100644
--- a/python/helpers/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/helpers/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-pip==22.0.4
-pip-tools==6.5.1
+pip>=21.3.1  # Allow earlier versions to retain python 3.6 support
+pip-tools>=6.4.0  # Allow earlier versions to retain python 3.6 support
 flake8==4.0.1
 hashin==0.17.0
 pipenv==2022.3.28
diff --git a/python/spec/dependabot/python/file_updater/poetry_file_updater_spec.rb b/python/spec/dependabot/python/file_updater/poetry_file_updater_spec.rb
index 8165b996968..2a5e54a58db 100644
--- a/python/spec/dependabot/python/file_updater/poetry_file_updater_spec.rb
+++ b/python/spec/dependabot/python/file_updater/poetry_file_updater_spec.rb
@@ -116,6 +116,39 @@
       end
     end
 
+    context "with a supported python version" do
+      let(:python_version) { "3.6.9" }
+      let(:pyproject_fixture_name) { "python_36.toml" }
+      let(:lockfile_fixture_name) { "python_36.lock" }
+      let(:dependency) do
+        Dependabot::Dependency.new(
+          name: "django",
+          version: "3.1",
+          previous_version: "3.0",
+          package_manager: "pip",
+          requirements: [{
+            requirement: "*",
+            file: "pyproject.toml",
+            source: nil,
+            groups: ["dependencies"]
+          }],
+          previous_requirements: [{
+            requirement: "*",
+            file: "pyproject.toml",
+            source: nil,
+            groups: ["dependencies"]
+          }]
+        )
+      end
+      it "updates the lockfile" do
+        updated_lockfile = updated_files.find { |f| f.name == "pyproject.lock" }
+
+        lockfile_obj = TomlRB.parse(updated_lockfile.content)
+        requests = lockfile_obj["package"].find { |d| d["name"] == "django" }
+        expect(requests["version"]).to eq("3.1")
+      end
+    end
+
     context "without a lockfile" do
       let(:dependency_files) { [pyproject] }
       let(:pyproject_fixture_name) { "caret_version.toml" }
diff --git a/python/spec/fixtures/pyproject_files/python_36.toml b/python/spec/fixtures/pyproject_files/python_36.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8d0ededb8dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/spec/fixtures/pyproject_files/python_36.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[tool.poetry]
+name = "devproj"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = ""
+authors = ["Your Name <you@example.com>"]
+
+[tool.poetry.dependencies]
+python = "3.6.9"
+requests = "^2.27.1"
+Django = "3.0"
+
+[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
+pytest = "^5.2"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
+build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
diff --git a/python/spec/fixtures/pyproject_locks/python_36.lock b/python/spec/fixtures/pyproject_locks/python_36.lock
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..306301cb59f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/spec/fixtures/pyproject_locks/python_36.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,349 @@
+[[package]]
+name = "asgiref"
+version = "3.4.1"
+description = "ASGI specs, helper code, and adapters"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+typing-extensions = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+tests = ["pytest", "pytest-asyncio", "mypy (>=0.800)"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "atomicwrites"
+version = "1.4.0"
+description = "Atomic file writes."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "attrs"
+version = "21.4.0"
+description = "Classes Without Boilerplate"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "six", "mypy", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "zope.interface", "furo", "sphinx", "sphinx-notfound-page", "pre-commit", "cloudpickle"]
+docs = ["furo", "sphinx", "zope.interface", "sphinx-notfound-page"]
+tests = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "six", "mypy", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "zope.interface", "cloudpickle"]
+tests_no_zope = ["coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "six", "mypy", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "cloudpickle"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "certifi"
+version = "2021.10.8"
+description = "Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "charset-normalizer"
+version = "2.0.12"
+description = "The Real First Universal Charset Detector. Open, modern and actively maintained alternative to Chardet."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+unicode_backport = ["unicodedata2"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "colorama"
+version = "0.4.4"
+description = "Cross-platform colored terminal text."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "django"
+version = "3.0"
+description = "A high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+asgiref = ">=3.2,<4.0"
+pytz = "*"
+sqlparse = ">=0.2.2"
+
+[package.extras]
+argon2 = ["argon2-cffi (>=16.1.0)"]
+bcrypt = ["bcrypt"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "idna"
+version = "3.3"
+description = "Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "importlib-metadata"
+version = "4.8.3"
+description = "Read metadata from Python packages"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+typing-extensions = {version = ">=3.6.4", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
+zipp = ">=0.5"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["sphinx", "jaraco.packaging (>=8.2)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)"]
+perf = ["ipython"]
+testing = ["pytest (>=6)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-flake8", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=1.0.1)", "packaging", "pep517", "pyfakefs", "flufl.flake8", "pytest-perf (>=0.9.2)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-mypy", "importlib-resources (>=1.3)"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "more-itertools"
+version = "8.12.0"
+description = "More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "packaging"
+version = "21.3"
+description = "Core utilities for Python packages"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+pyparsing = ">=2.0.2,<3.0.5 || >3.0.5"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pluggy"
+version = "0.13.1"
+description = "plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+importlib-metadata = {version = ">=0.12", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["pre-commit", "tox"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "py"
+version = "1.11.0"
+description = "library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pyparsing"
+version = "3.0.7"
+description = "Python parsing module"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.extras]
+diagrams = ["jinja2", "railroad-diagrams"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pytest"
+version = "5.4.3"
+description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+atomicwrites = {version = ">=1.0", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
+attrs = ">=17.4.0"
+colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
+importlib-metadata = {version = ">=0.12", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
+more-itertools = ">=4.0.0"
+packaging = "*"
+pluggy = ">=0.12,<1.0"
+py = ">=1.5.0"
+wcwidth = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+checkqa-mypy = ["mypy (==v0.761)"]
+testing = ["argcomplete", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "requests", "xmlschema"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pytz"
+version = "2022.1"
+description = "World timezone definitions, modern and historical"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "requests"
+version = "2.27.1"
+description = "Python HTTP for Humans."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+certifi = ">=2017.4.17"
+charset-normalizer = {version = ">=2.0.0,<2.1.0", markers = "python_version >= \"3\""}
+idna = {version = ">=2.5,<4", markers = "python_version >= \"3\""}
+urllib3 = ">=1.21.1,<1.27"
+
+[package.extras]
+socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7)", "win-inet-pton"]
+use_chardet_on_py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<5)"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "sqlparse"
+version = "0.4.2"
+description = "A non-validating SQL parser."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "typing-extensions"
+version = "4.1.1"
+description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.6+"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "urllib3"
+version = "1.26.9"
+description = "HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, <4"
+
+[package.extras]
+brotli = ["brotlicffi (>=0.8.0)", "brotli (>=1.0.9)", "brotlipy (>=0.6.0)"]
+secure = ["pyOpenSSL (>=0.14)", "cryptography (>=1.3.4)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "certifi", "ipaddress"]
+socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wcwidth"
+version = "0.2.5"
+description = "Measures the displayed width of unicode strings in a terminal"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zipp"
+version = "3.6.0"
+description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["sphinx", "jaraco.packaging (>=8.2)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)"]
+testing = ["pytest (>=4.6)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-flake8", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=1.0.1)", "jaraco.itertools", "func-timeout", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-mypy"]
+
+[metadata]
+lock-version = "1.1"
+python-versions = "^3.6"
+content-hash = "9c09cab7302e9946299cc4f504b8e5fd7b5b95582cc708efa09a862713bb0f23"
+
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+    {file = "Django-3.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d98c9b6e5eed147bc51f47c014ff6826bd1ab50b166956776ee13db5a58804ae"},
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