diff --git a/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetSession.ts b/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetSession.ts
index 91cf566e74284b1390abe4e101be9281034b13ac..c479ffa78b36b199ca06c1ef852263ac78ecb540 100644
--- a/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetSession.ts
+++ b/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetSession.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import { IClipboardService } from 'vs/platform/clipboard/common/clipboardService
 import { IWorkspaceContextService } from 'vs/platform/workspace/common/workspace';
 import { optional } from 'vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiation';
 import { Choice, Placeholder, SnippetParser, Text, TextmateSnippet, Marker } from './snippetParser';
-import { ClipboardBasedVariableResolver, CompositeSnippetVariableResolver, ModelBasedVariableResolver, SelectionBasedVariableResolver, TimeBasedVariableResolver, CommentBasedVariableResolver, WorkspaceBasedVariableResolver } from './snippetVariables';
+import { ClipboardBasedVariableResolver, CompositeSnippetVariableResolver, ModelBasedVariableResolver, SelectionBasedVariableResolver, TimeBasedVariableResolver, CommentBasedVariableResolver, WorkspaceBasedVariableResolver, RandomBasedVariableResolver } from './snippetVariables';
 import { registerThemingParticipant } from 'vs/platform/theme/common/themeService';
 import * as colors from 'vs/platform/theme/common/colorRegistry';
 import { withNullAsUndefined } from 'vs/base/common/types';
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ export class SnippetSession {
 				new CommentBasedVariableResolver(model),
 				new TimeBasedVariableResolver,
 				new WorkspaceBasedVariableResolver(workspaceService),
+				new RandomBasedVariableResolver,
 			]));
 
 			const offset = model.getOffsetAt(start) + delta;
diff --git a/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetVariables.ts b/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetVariables.ts
index db6700822a4e342c81de81b4ca8ed213d558469e..09fd3ca980616ea489ef9a5b8e44399190b7b39f 100644
--- a/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetVariables.ts
+++ b/src/vs/editor/contrib/snippet/snippetVariables.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ export const KnownSnippetVariableNames: { [key: string]: true } = Object.freeze(
 	'LINE_COMMENT': true,
 	'WORKSPACE_NAME': true,
 	'WORKSPACE_FOLDER': true,
+	'RANDOM': true,
+	'RANDOM_HEX': true,
 });
 
 export class CompositeSnippetVariableResolver implements VariableResolver {
@@ -316,3 +318,18 @@ export class WorkspaceBasedVariableResolver implements VariableResolver {
 		return (folderpath ? normalizeDriveLetter(folderpath) : '/');
 	}
 }
+
+export class RandomBasedVariableResolver implements VariableResolver {
+	resolve(variable: Variable): string | undefined {
+		const { name } = variable;
+
+		if (name === 'RANDOM') {
+			return Math.random().toString().slice(-6);
+		}
+		else if (name === 'RANDOM_HEX') {
+			return Math.random().toString(16).slice(-6);
+		}
+
+		return undefined;
+	}
+}