diff --git a/pinot-connectors/pinot-spark-2-connector/pom.xml b/pinot-connectors/pinot-spark-2-connector/pom.xml
index 58e307221b71..89d0ef411fec 100644
--- a/pinot-connectors/pinot-spark-2-connector/pom.xml
+++ b/pinot-connectors/pinot-spark-2-connector/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
   <url>https://pinot.apache.org/</url>
   <properties>
     <pinot.root>${basedir}/../..</pinot.root>
-    <spark.version>2.4.8</spark.version>
+    <spark.version>3.5.1</spark.version>
     <paranamer.version>2.8</paranamer.version>
     <scalaxml.version>2.3.0</scalaxml.version>
     <scalatest.version>3.2.18</scalatest.version>