diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 5cbbaee..0476e9e 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
     # The executor is the environment in which the steps below will be executed - below will use a python 3.9 container
     # Change the version below to your required version of python
     docker:
-      - image: cimg/python:3.8
+      - image: cimg/python:3.9
     # Checkout the code as the first step. This is a dedicated CircleCI step.
     # The python orb's install-packages step will install the dependencies from a Pipfile via Pipenv by default.
     # Here we're making sure we use just use the system-wide pip. By default it uses the project root's requirements.txt.