Announcing Parrot Creative’s exciting expansion to Europe

A satellite office, not a relocation

We’ve opened a satellite office in Rawicz, Poland, as a second hiring base for our technical team. Bristol remains our UK base, and we will continue investing in UK-side strategy, account management and client relationships. The Polish hub gives us a legal entity inside the EU so we can hire developers and engineers from a wider candidate pool than the UK market on its own can reach.

The short version: we still build websites in the UK. We can now also employ the right technical people in Wrocław, Poznań or anywhere else in the EU without the post-Brexit visa friction that’s made cross-border hiring slower and more expensive since 2021.

If you’ve worked with us before, nothing changes about who you speak to or how projects run. Account management, design, strategy and the day-to-day of your build still come from our UK team. The Polish hub adds capacity behind the scenes. It doesn’t replace any aspect of the UK presence.

Why Poland

Polish developers have a serious reputation. HackerRank’s Programming Olympics placed Poland near the top for coding-challenge performance, ahead of the UK overall. That study is now several years old, but the country’s standing has held up. The same multinationals you’d expect to find clustered in London, Dublin, Amsterdam or Berlin all run engineering operations in Poland: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, IBM, Warner Bros. Discovery, Ryanair and Dropbox among them.

Source: Programming Olympics by Hackerrank.com

Beyond the talent argument, there’s a personal one. Our founder Kacper was raised, educated and built Parrot Creative in the South West, but he was born in Poland. Setting up the satellite is a strategic decision first; the absence of a language or cultural barrier on the founder’s side simply made Poland the obvious EU member country to start with.

The local tech scene helps too. Recent WordCamps in Wrocław and Kraków, WordCamp Europe coming to Kraków in 2026, and a wider Polish WordPress community. Given how much of our work sits on those two platforms, that matters more than a generic “good for IT” argument.

How Bristol and Rawicz work together

The model is straightforward. Bristol is the company. Rawicz is an additional hiring base attached to it.

It’s roughly the structure Ryanair uses for its technology arm. Ryanair Labs is headquartered in Dublin, with additional software engineering hubs in Poland, Spain, and Portugal. The HQ holds strategy and commercial relationships; the satellites exist so the business can recruit the engineers it needs wherever those engineers happen to live. That’s the same logic for us, at a fraction of the scale.

For Parrot Creative, that means:

• Bristol and the UK hold strategy, design, account management and most of our existing development team. It remains where we’re based and where we continue to invest.
• Rawicz adds technical hiring capacity inside the EU, with developers integrated into the same project teams as UK staff.
• Clients work with one team, on UK time, billed in GBP through our UK entity.

The benefit we care most about is hiring better, not hiring cheaper. A larger candidate pool means we can hold out for engineers with the right experience and the right cultural fit rather than taking the closest available match. For long-running client relationships, that’s the difference that compounds.

Get in touch

If you’re planning a custom WordPress build, an ecommerce project, or you’ve inherited a site that needs serious technical work, we’d be glad to talk. Drop us a line and we’ll come back to you the same working day.