diff --git a/lib/modules/manager/bazel-module/index.ts b/lib/modules/manager/bazel-module/index.ts
index 3b09c6359f0e84158c67824cdfb2663b5e92d95a..021ef601adab08acae79ac8b6f2e352e57bf56e4 100644
--- a/lib/modules/manager/bazel-module/index.ts
+++ b/lib/modules/manager/bazel-module/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { Category } from '../../../constants';
 import { BazelDatasource } from '../../datasource/bazel';
 import { GithubTagsDatasource } from '../../datasource/github-tags';
 import { extractPackageFile } from './extract';
@@ -8,6 +9,8 @@ export const defaultConfig = {
   fileMatch: ['(^|/)MODULE\\.bazel$'],
 };
 
+export const categories: Category[] = ['bazel'];
+
 export const supportedDatasources = [
   BazelDatasource.id,
   GithubTagsDatasource.id,
diff --git a/lib/modules/manager/maven-wrapper/index.ts b/lib/modules/manager/maven-wrapper/index.ts
index 9fc60c9a4a0ce9bf817b5a4cf1bcbeb86bf11658..799e6d8c1d1339bb4e679794202b92ac2a009d56 100644
--- a/lib/modules/manager/maven-wrapper/index.ts
+++ b/lib/modules/manager/maven-wrapper/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { Category } from '../../../constants';
 import { MavenDatasource } from '../../datasource/maven';
 import { id as versioning } from '../../versioning/maven';
 
@@ -9,4 +10,6 @@ export const defaultConfig = {
   versioning,
 };
 
+export const categories: Category[] = ['java'];
+
 export const supportedDatasources = [MavenDatasource.id];
diff --git a/lib/modules/manager/pep621/index.ts b/lib/modules/manager/pep621/index.ts
index 62a464046df595822e4cfbaf8c1c7606ca8a727f..1b4326edb1d24b5899f3a3c9435bb33eeafe6a06 100644
--- a/lib/modules/manager/pep621/index.ts
+++ b/lib/modules/manager/pep621/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { Category } from '../../../constants';
 import { PypiDatasource } from '../../datasource/pypi';
 export { extractPackageFile } from './extract';
 export { updateArtifacts } from './artifacts';
@@ -6,6 +7,8 @@ export const supportedDatasources = [PypiDatasource.id];
 
 export const supportsLockFileMaintenance = true;
 
+export const categories: Category[] = ['python'];
+
 export const defaultConfig = {
   fileMatch: ['(^|/)pyproject\\.toml$'],
 };