I'm employed towards the bottom end of the self improver route.
Have many modular and integrated friends either in the same position or worse, with some in a better position. There isn't a correlation that I can personally see among the people I know as to whether one is better than the other.
Tagged schemes obviously are doing the best for employment.
I can confirm from someone who was high up in one of the 'big 3' that this particular 'third' is in big trouble.