diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 100109539b6..7d6e3018f87 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ jobs:
         parallelism: 1
         steps:
             - checkout
+            - run: sudo pip install --upgrade pip
             - run: sudo pip install .[sklearn,tf-cpu,torch,testing]
             - run: sudo pip install codecov pytest-cov
             - run: python -m pytest -n 8 --dist=loadfile -s ./tests/ --cov  | tee output.txt
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ jobs:
         parallelism: 1
         steps:
             - checkout
+            - run: sudo pip install --upgrade pip
             - run: sudo pip install .[sklearn,torch,testing]
             - run: python -m pytest -n 8 --dist=loadfile -s ./tests/ | tee output.txt
             - store_artifacts:
@@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ jobs:
         parallelism: 1
         steps:
             - checkout
+            - run: sudo pip install --upgrade pip
             - run: sudo pip install .[sklearn,tf-cpu,testing]
             - run: python -m pytest -n 8 --dist=loadfile -s ./tests/ | tee output.txt
             - store_artifacts:
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ jobs:
             RUN_CUSTOM_TOKENIZERS: yes
         steps:
             - checkout
+            - run: sudo pip install --upgrade pip
             - run: sudo pip install .[ja,testing]
             - run: python -m pytest -s ./tests/test_tokenization_bert_japanese.py | tee output.txt
             - store_artifacts:
@@ -71,6 +75,7 @@ jobs:
         parallelism: 1
         steps:
             - checkout
+            - run: sudo pip install --upgrade pip
             - run: sudo pip install .[sklearn,torch,testing]
             - run: sudo pip install -r examples/requirements.txt
             - run: python -m pytest -n 8 --dist=loadfile -rA -s ./examples/ | tee output.txt
@@ -83,6 +88,7 @@ jobs:
             - image: circleci/python:3.6
         steps:
             - checkout
+            - run: sudo pip install --upgrade pip
             - run: sudo pip install .[tf,torch,docs]
             - run: cd docs && make html SPHINXOPTS="-W"
             - store_artifacts:
@@ -106,6 +112,7 @@ jobs:
         parallelism: 1
         steps:
             - checkout
+            - run: sudo pip install --upgrade pip
             # we need a version of isort with https://github.com/timothycrosley/isort/pull/1000
             - run: sudo pip install git+git://github.com/timothycrosley/isort.git@e63ae06ec7d70b06df9e528357650281a3d3ec22#egg=isort
             - run: sudo pip install .[tf,torch,quality]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/github-torch-hub.yml b/.github/workflows/github-torch-hub.yml
index ace9e029635..923b0983b4c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/github-torch-hub.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/github-torch-hub.yml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ jobs:
         python-version: 3.7
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
+        pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install torch
         pip install numpy tokenizers filelock requests tqdm regex sentencepiece sacremoses packaging
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/self-push.yml b/.github/workflows/self-push.yml
index 027ccebf1c3..8784c9b0896 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/self-push.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/self-push.yml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         source .env/bin/activate
+        pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install torch
         pip install .[sklearn,testing]
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/self-scheduled.yml b/.github/workflows/self-scheduled.yml
index f0bd06000ee..a61a9b58079 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/self-scheduled.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/self-scheduled.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         source .env/bin/activate
+        pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install .[sklearn,torch,testing]
 
     - name: Are GPUs recognized by our DL frameworks