diff --git a/.github/workflows/aws-ecs-deploy-backend.yml b/.github/workflows/aws-ecs-deploy-backend.yml
index 149f56412..9cbd865ae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/aws-ecs-deploy-backend.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/aws-ecs-deploy-backend.yml
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [setup_env]
     steps:
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.13'
+        cache: 'pip'
+        cache-dependency-path: |
+          **/requirements*.txt
+    - name: Identify pip cache directory
+      id: vars
+      run: |
+      echo "pip-dir=$(pip3 cache dir)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
@@ -79,6 +90,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
       with:
         context: ${{ env.DOCKER_PATH }}
+        build-contexts: pip_cache=${{steps.vars.outputs.pip-dir}}
         file: ${{ env.DOCKERFILE }}
         platforms: ${{ env.PLATFORMS }}
         push: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/python-tests.yml
index e9aa43c34..63f8c120e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-tests.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ jobs:
     - name: Python 3.13 Setup
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.13
+        python-version: '3.13'
+        cache: 'pip'
+        cache-dependency-path: |
+          **/requirements*.txt
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update
diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index b2400dc2b..811f91794 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ WORKDIR /app/
 
 ARG NPDI_API_PORT=5000
 
-RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip,from=pip_cache pip3 install --upgrade pip
 
 COPY requirements/ requirements/
 
-RUN pip3 install -r requirements/dev_unix.txt
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip,from=pip_cache pip3 install -r requirements/dev_unix.txt
 COPY . .
 
 ENV PORT=$NPDI_API_PORT
diff --git a/requirements/_core.in b/requirements/_core.in
index d0bb7ffc0..bbc33d676 100644
--- a/requirements/_core.in
+++ b/requirements/_core.in
@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ ua-parser
 ujson
 neo4j
 neomodel==5.3.3
+pyzmq==26.2.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements/dev_unix.txt b/requirements/dev_unix.txt
index 97f94df75..792519740 100644
--- a/requirements/dev_unix.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev_unix.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.13
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile requirements/dev_unix.in
@@ -58,9 +58,7 @@ certifi==2024.2.2
     #   httpx
     #   requests
 cffi==1.16.0
-    # via
-    #   argon2-cffi-bindings
-    #   bcrypt
+    # via argon2-cffi-bindings
 charset-normalizer==3.3.2
     # via requests
 click==8.1.7
@@ -379,8 +377,9 @@ pyyaml==6.0.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/_core.in
     #   jupyter-events
-pyzmq==25.1.2
+pyzmq==26.2.1
     # via
+    #   -r requirements/_core.in
     #   ipykernel
     #   jupyter-client
     #   jupyter-console