While the UK's IT sector beats the national average on payment practices, a 67.7/100 average score still suggests there's significant room for improvement, considering a perfect score is 100. The sheer disparity between the best and worst performers is also striking, highlighting a lack of consistency across the industry.
The East of England, with an average of 81.9/100, appears to have the strongest payment culture in the IT sector, based on this sample; London's slightly above-average score of 70.6/100, representing a larger group of 19 companies, may be a more representative indicator of typical performance. The small sample size in other regions means their averages might be skewed by outliers.
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Ultimately, the wide spread of scores - from Datalynx's near-perfect 97.6 to Nokia UK's dismal 19.1 - indicates the IT sector isn't a monolith when it comes to paying suppliers promptly.
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