diff --git a/ci/requirements-2.7-64.run b/ci/requirements-2.7-64.run
index ce085a6ebf91c..42b5a789ae31a 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-2.7-64.run
+++ b/ci/requirements-2.7-64.run
@@ -16,4 +16,3 @@ bottleneck
 html5lib
 beautiful-soup
 jinja2=2.8
-pyqt=4.11.4
diff --git a/ci/requirements-2.7.run b/ci/requirements-2.7.run
index eec7886fed38d..560d6571b8771 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-2.7.run
+++ b/ci/requirements-2.7.run
@@ -21,4 +21,3 @@ beautiful-soup=4.2.1
 statsmodels
 jinja2=2.8
 xarray
-pyqt=4.11.4
diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.5-64.run b/ci/requirements-3.5-64.run
index 1dc88ed2c94af..96de21e3daa5e 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-3.5-64.run
+++ b/ci/requirements-3.5-64.run
@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ numexpr
 pytables
 matplotlib
 blosc
-pyqt=4.11.4
diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.5.run b/ci/requirements-3.5.run
index d9ce708585a33..333641caf26c4 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-3.5.run
+++ b/ci/requirements-3.5.run
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ pymysql
 psycopg2
 xarray
 boto
-pyqt=4.11.4
 
 # incompat with conda ATM
 # beautiful-soup