diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9e24630469..79152d5beb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Flask-Script==0.6.6
 honcho==0.5.0
 statsd==2.1.2
 gunicorn==19.4.5
-celery==3.1.11
+celery==5.2.2
 jsonschema==2.4.0
 click==3.3
 RestrictedPython==3.6.0