diff --git a/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.java b/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.java
index 7fc17d1321..628b6272d8 100644
--- a/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.java
+++ b/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.java
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
 import lombok.Value;
+import lombok.With;
 import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.openrewrite.*;
+import org.openrewrite.marker.Marker;
 import org.openrewrite.internal.ListUtils;
 import org.openrewrite.internal.StringUtils;
 import org.openrewrite.maven.internal.MavenPomDownloader;
@@ -172,6 +174,9 @@ public Xml.Document visitDocument(Xml.Document document, ExecutionContext ctx) {
             @Override
             public  Xml.@Nullable Tag visitTag(Xml.Tag tag, ExecutionContext ctx) {
                 if (isDependencyTag()) {
+                    if (tag.getMarkers().findFirst(Skip.class).isPresent()) {
+                        return tag;
+                    }
                     ResolvedDependency d = findDependency(tag);
                     if (d != null &&
                             matchesGroup(d) &&
@@ -409,4 +414,15 @@ private static class RemoveEmptyPluginsTags extends MavenIsoVisitor<ExecutionCon
             return t;
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * A marker that can be placed on a Maven dependency tag to indicate that its explicit
+     * {@code <version>} should be retained, even when this recipe would otherwise remove it
+     * as redundant.
+     */
+    @Value
+    @With
+    public static class Skip implements Marker {
+        UUID id;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersionsTest.java b/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersionsTest.java
index f74aca3f21..4b79692256 100644
--- a/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersionsTest.java
+++ b/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/RemoveRedundantDependencyVersionsTest.java
@@ -15,18 +15,22 @@
  */
 package org.openrewrite.maven;
 
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Nested;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.CsvSource;
 import org.openrewrite.DocumentExample;
 import org.openrewrite.Issue;
+import org.openrewrite.Tree;
 import org.openrewrite.test.RecipeSpec;
 import org.openrewrite.test.RewriteTest;
 import org.openrewrite.test.SourceSpec;
+import org.openrewrite.xml.tree.Xml;
 
 import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
 import static org.openrewrite.java.Assertions.mavenProject;
 import static org.openrewrite.maven.Assertions.pomXml;
+import static org.openrewrite.test.RewriteTest.toRecipe;
 
 class RemoveRedundantDependencyVersionsTest implements RewriteTest {
 
@@ -2282,4 +2286,192 @@ void exceptManagedDependencyShouldNotBeRemoved() {
           )
         );
     }
+
+    @Nested
+    class SkipMarker {
+
+        @Test
+        void dependencyWithSkipMarkerKeepsVersion() {
+            String pom = """
+                  <project>
+                      <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
+                      <version>1</version>
+                      <dependencyManagement>
+                          <dependencies>
+                              <dependency>
+                                  <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                                  <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                                  <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                              </dependency>
+                          </dependencies>
+                      </dependencyManagement>
+                      <dependencies>
+                          <dependency>
+                              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                              <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                          </dependency>
+                      </dependencies>
+                  </project>
+                  """;
+            rewriteRun(
+              spec -> spec.recipe(toRecipe(() -> new MavenIsoVisitor<>() {
+                  @Override
+                  public Xml.Tag visitTag(Xml.Tag tag, org.openrewrite.ExecutionContext ctx) {
+                      Xml.Tag t = super.visitTag(tag, ctx);
+                      if (isDependencyTag("com.google.guava", "guava") &&
+                          !t.getMarkers().findFirst(RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.Skip.class).isPresent()) {
+                          t = t.withMarkers(t.getMarkers().add(new RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.Skip(Tree.randomId())));
+                      }
+                      if (isProjectTag()) {
+                          doAfterVisit(new RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions(null, null, null, null).getVisitor());
+                      }
+                      return t;
+                  }
+              })),
+              pomXml(pom, pom)
+            );
+        }
+
+        @Test
+        void dependencyWithoutSkipMarkerHasVersionRemoved() {
+            rewriteRun(
+              pomXml(
+                """
+                  <project>
+                      <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
+                      <version>1</version>
+                      <dependencyManagement>
+                          <dependencies>
+                              <dependency>
+                                  <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                                  <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                                  <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                              </dependency>
+                          </dependencies>
+                      </dependencyManagement>
+                      <dependencies>
+                          <dependency>
+                              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                              <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                          </dependency>
+                      </dependencies>
+                  </project>
+                  """,
+                """
+                  <project>
+                      <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
+                      <version>1</version>
+                      <dependencyManagement>
+                          <dependencies>
+                              <dependency>
+                                  <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                                  <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                                  <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                              </dependency>
+                          </dependencies>
+                      </dependencyManagement>
+                      <dependencies>
+                          <dependency>
+                              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                          </dependency>
+                      </dependencies>
+                  </project>
+                  """
+              )
+            );
+        }
+
+        @Test
+        void skipMarkerOnlyAffectsMarkedDependency() {
+            rewriteRun(
+              spec -> spec.recipe(toRecipe(() -> new MavenIsoVisitor<>() {
+                  @Override
+                  public Xml.Tag visitTag(Xml.Tag tag, org.openrewrite.ExecutionContext ctx) {
+                      Xml.Tag t = super.visitTag(tag, ctx);
+                      if (isDependencyTag("com.google.guava", "guava") &&
+                          !t.getMarkers().findFirst(RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.Skip.class).isPresent()) {
+                          t = t.withMarkers(t.getMarkers().add(new RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions.Skip(Tree.randomId())));
+                      }
+                      if (isProjectTag()) {
+                          doAfterVisit(new RemoveRedundantDependencyVersions(null, null, null, null).getVisitor());
+                      }
+                      return t;
+                  }
+              })),
+              pomXml(
+                """
+                  <project>
+                      <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
+                      <version>1</version>
+                      <dependencyManagement>
+                          <dependencies>
+                              <dependency>
+                                  <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                                  <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                                  <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                              </dependency>
+                              <dependency>
+                                  <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+                                  <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+                                  <version>2.11.0</version>
+                              </dependency>
+                          </dependencies>
+                      </dependencyManagement>
+                      <dependencies>
+                          <dependency>
+                              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                              <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                          </dependency>
+                          <dependency>
+                              <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+                              <version>2.11.0</version>
+                          </dependency>
+                      </dependencies>
+                  </project>
+                  """,
+                """
+                  <project>
+                      <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
+                      <version>1</version>
+                      <dependencyManagement>
+                          <dependencies>
+                              <dependency>
+                                  <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                                  <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                                  <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                              </dependency>
+                              <dependency>
+                                  <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+                                  <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+                                  <version>2.11.0</version>
+                              </dependency>
+                          </dependencies>
+                      </dependencyManagement>
+                      <dependencies>
+                          <dependency>
+                              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                              <version>29.0-jre</version>
+                          </dependency>
+                          <dependency>
+                              <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+                          </dependency>
+                      </dependencies>
+                  </project>
+                  """
+              )
+            );
+        }
+    }
 }