There is a preference for integrated students, and this sadly was not helped by those responsible for recruitment this year leaving it to OATS to do the initial screening. They put forward only integrated course graduates as this enables them to say to prospective students that more integrated than modular students get jobs, thus helping to convince prospective students to spend more money on the full course (look at the ridiculous article in Pilot magazine this month if any proof is needed!).
Flybe have, however, also taken on a fair few modular students this year, and they have had no problems with the type rating. They do tend to have a few hours instructing, parachute dropping, etc rather than just minimum hours required for licence issue.