diff --git a/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8.yml b/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8.yml
index c03b8ef9956..2394c14eb9a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/migrations-mysql8.yml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ jobs:
         mysql -V
     - name: Install Python dependencies
       run: |
+        pip install pip==21.2.1 --upgrade  # set pip version to be compatible with deprecated pip version syntax
         pip install -r requirements/pip_tools.txt
         pip install -r requirements/production.txt
         pip uninstall -y mysqlclient
diff --git a/requirements/pip_tools.in b/requirements/pip_tools.in
index f2177985a94..bee11765df0 100644
--- a/requirements/pip_tools.in
+++ b/requirements/pip_tools.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 -c constraints.txt
 
 # Dependencies to run compile tools
-pip-tools                           # Contains pip-compile, used to generate pip requirements files
+pip-tools==6.0                       # Contains pip-compile, used to generate pip requirements files
diff --git a/requirements/pip_tools.txt b/requirements/pip_tools.txt
index b6150065453..669c1f956a0 100644
--- a/requirements/pip_tools.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip_tools.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ click==8.1.3
     # via pip-tools
 packaging==23.1
     # via build
-pip-tools==6.13.0
+pip-tools==6.0
     # via -r requirements/pip_tools.in
 pyproject-hooks==1.0.0
     # via build