diff --git a/scripts/nb-tester/pyproject.toml b/scripts/nb-tester/pyproject.toml
index 7f5e12936e6..d30d4186042 100644
--- a/scripts/nb-tester/pyproject.toml
+++ b/scripts/nb-tester/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "qiskit-ibm-runtime",
   "nbclient~=0.10.0",
   "nbformat~=5.10.4",
-  "ipykernel~=6.30.0",
+  "ipykernel~=7.0.1",
   "squeaky==0.7.0",
 ]