diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fcd9474fda63..87ac9c3cf7d3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ test = [
     "PyVisa-sim>=0.6.0",
     "sphinx>=4.5.0",  # sphinx extension tests
     "types-jsonschema>=4.16.0",
-    "types-networkx >= 3.1", # Version should match the networkx requirment
+    "types-networkx >= 3.6.1.20260303", # minimum version required for correct edge_subgraph types
     "types_requests>=0.1.8",
     "types-tabulate>=0.1.0",
     "types-tqdm>=4.64.6",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8ab10d83db67..83529d441479 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ traitlets==5.14.3
     #   nbsphinx
 types-jsonschema==4.26.0.20260202
     # via qcodes (pyproject.toml)
-types-networkx==3.6.1.20260210
+types-networkx==3.6.1.20260303
     # via qcodes (pyproject.toml)
 types-pytz==2025.2.0.20251108
     # via pandas-stubs
diff --git a/src/qcodes/dataset/descriptions/dependencies.py b/src/qcodes/dataset/descriptions/dependencies.py
index 5d23129520fa..4fa4e635ff45 100644
--- a/src/qcodes/dataset/descriptions/dependencies.py
+++ b/src/qcodes/dataset/descriptions/dependencies.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from copy import deepcopy
 from itertools import chain, product
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Literal, cast
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Literal
 
 import networkx as nx
 from typing_extensions import deprecated
@@ -150,9 +150,7 @@ def _dependency_subgraph(self) -> nx.DiGraph[str]:
             for edge in self.graph.edges
             if self.graph.edges[edge]["interdep_type"] == "depends_on"
         ]
-        # the type annotations does not currently encode that edge_subgraph of a DiGraph
-        # is a DiGraph
-        return cast("nx.DiGraph[str]", self.graph.edge_subgraph(depends_on_edges))
+        return self.graph.edge_subgraph(depends_on_edges)
 
     @property
     def _inference_subgraph(self) -> nx.DiGraph[str]:
@@ -161,9 +159,7 @@ def _inference_subgraph(self) -> nx.DiGraph[str]:
             for edge in self.graph.edges
             if self.graph.edges[edge]["interdep_type"] == "inferred_from"
         ]
-        # the type annotations does not currently encode that edge_subgraph of a DiGraph
-        # is a DiGraph
-        return cast("nx.DiGraph[str]", self.graph.edge_subgraph(inferred_from_edges))
+        return self.graph.edge_subgraph(inferred_from_edges)
 
     def extend(
         self,