diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst
index c7f8bb70e3461..71718928ee90a 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ Sparse
 
 Build Changes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+- Fixed pyqt development dependency issue because of different pyqt package name in conda and PyPI (:issue:`26838`)
 
 
 ExtensionArray
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 93e8302b498a0..6d2cd701c3854 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ dependencies:
   - lxml  # pandas.read_html
   - openpyxl  # pandas.read_excel, DataFrame.to_excel, pandas.ExcelWriter, pandas.ExcelFile
   - pyarrow>=0.9.0  # pandas.read_paquet, DataFrame.to_parquet, pandas.read_feather, DataFrame.to_feather
-  - pyqt  # pandas.read_clipbobard
+  - pyqt>=5.9.2  # pandas.read_clipboard
   - pytables>=3.4.2  # pandas.read_hdf, DataFrame.to_hdf
   - python-snappy  # required by pyarrow
   - s3fs  # pandas.read_csv... when using 's3://...' path
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index e49ad10bfc99d..cf11a3ee28258 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ html5lib
 lxml
 openpyxl
 pyarrow>=0.9.0
-pyqt
+pyqt5>=5.9.2
 tables>=3.4.2
 python-snappy
 s3fs
diff --git a/scripts/generate_pip_deps_from_conda.py b/scripts/generate_pip_deps_from_conda.py
index ac73859b22598..6ae10c2cb07d2 100755
--- a/scripts/generate_pip_deps_from_conda.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_pip_deps_from_conda.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 
 EXCLUDE = {"python=3"}
-RENAME = {"pytables": "tables"}
+RENAME = {"pytables": "tables", "pyqt": "pyqt5"}
 
 
 def conda_package_to_pip(package):