diff --git a/inference-engine/ie_bridges/python/wheel/meta/openvino-dev.requirements.txt b/inference-engine/ie_bridges/python/wheel/meta/openvino-dev.requirements.txt
index 788546a6921..ccc569a0194 100644
--- a/inference-engine/ie_bridges/python/wheel/meta/openvino-dev.requirements.txt
+++ b/inference-engine/ie_bridges/python/wheel/meta/openvino-dev.requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ texttable~=1.6.3
 py-cpuinfo>=7.0.0
 PyYAML>=5.4.1
 pillow>=8.1.2
-scikit-image~=0.17.2
+scikit-image>=0.17.2
 scikit-learn>=0.24.1
 yamlloader>=0.5
 shapely>=1.7.1