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University of Derby

Registered as UNIVERSITY OF DERBY. Company number 03079282. 16 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 July 2025, filed 19 December 2025.

27days on average to pay

  • Within 30 days
  • 31 to 60 days
  • Over 60 days

In the reporting period from 1 February 2025 to 31 July 2025, University of Derby reported that it took an average of 27 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 92% of invoices within 30 days, 5% in 31 to 60 days and 3% after more than 60 days. It said 8% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 61% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 31 July 2024, the average was 23 days, so it is 4 days slower now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 32 Jan 2020 23 Jul 2020 18 Jan 2021 19 Jul 2021 19 Jan 2022 22 Jul 2022 22 Jan 2023 28 Jul 2023 23 Jan 2024 23 Jul 2024 24 Jan 2025 27 Jul 2025

Bars are labelled with the month the period ended. The dashed line marks 30 days.

Every report filed

PeriodFiledAverage daysWithin 30 days31 to 60Over 60Not within termsSource
Feb to Jul 2025 19 Dec 2025 27 92%5%3%8% Report
Aug 2024 to Jan 2025 13 Feb 2025 24 89%7%4%11% Report
Feb to Jul 2024 29 Aug 2024 23 93%5%2%7% Report
Aug 2023 to Jan 2024 27 Feb 2024 23 92%6%2%8% Report
Feb to Jul 2023 25 Aug 2023 28 81%12%7%19% Report
Aug 2022 to Jan 2023 27 Feb 2023 22 88%9%3%12% Report
Feb to Jul 2022 23 Aug 2022 22 91%6%3%9% Report
Aug 2021 to Jan 2022 15 Feb 2022 19 93%5%2%7% Report
Feb to Jul 2021 23 Aug 2021 19 93%4%3%7% Report
Aug 2020 to Jan 2021 22 Feb 2021 18 93%5%2%7% Report
Feb to Jul 2020 24 Aug 2020 23 89%5%6%11% Report
Aug 2019 to Jan 2020 28 Feb 2020 32 69%23%8%31% Report
Feb to Jul 2019 22 Aug 2019 30 77%15%8%23% Report
Aug 2018 to Jan 2019 1 Mar 2019 45 55%29%16%45% Report
Feb to Jul 2018 14 Aug 2018 30 76%17%7%24% Report
Aug 2017 to Jan 2018 1 Mar 2018 31 67%23%10%33% Report

Source: the company's filings on Check payment practices. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as filed. We do not change them.