The bar chart compares the number of skilled immigrant workers to Australia from 2009 to 2012. Overall, despite fluctuations and varied patterns, the figure for accountants and computer programmers increased, whereas cooks and software engineers showed an opposite trend. Notably, the number of computer programmers was considerably lower than others, while accountants accounted for the largest share during the period.
Interestingly, the number of accountants was the highest in all 4 years. In 2009, 20,000 migrant accountants used to work in Australia, and this figure reached its peak at around 28,000 after a year, which was the highest point across the chart. However, it had changed by 2012, and this figure experienced a fall to around 22,000.
Regarding cooks and software engineers, they saw a downward trend during this period in spite of varied fluctuations. The figure for cooks showed 17,000 initially, before falling to 15,000 in 2010. Then, even though there was a recovery in the number of employees in this sector to around 18,000 in 2011, it slightly decreased to 16,000 a year after. In contrast, the second most popular job for immigrants in Australia, software engineering, also showed a declining trend. Despite increasing from 18,000 to 22,000 between the years of 2009 and 2011, the figure for software engineers plummeted to 16,000 in the final year.
As far as computer programmers are concerned, it was the least desirable job among other fields in Australia for immigrants. However, although there were some fluctuations, the number of employees in this sector recorded a double-fold increase from 2,500 to 5,000 during the given timespan.