diff --git a/daliuge-engine/setup.py b/daliuge-engine/setup.py
index 5fd9fb0b7..3cb3c76ba 100644
--- a/daliuge-engine/setup.py
+++ b/daliuge-engine/setup.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def run(self):
     "overrides",
     "paramiko",
     "psutil",
-    "pyarrow",
+    "pyarrow == 9.0.0",
     "python-daemon",
     "pyzmq ~= 22.3.0",
     "scp",