The given bar chart illustrates how many skilled migrant workers came to Australia in four distinct occupations from the year 2009 to 2012.
Overall, it is obvious that the number of accountants, cooks and software engineers witnessed slight fluctuations and decreases; meanwhile, that of computer programmers had an upward trend in the 4 year-period. Additionally, the number of accountants maintained its dominance among the four professions throughout the given period.
Looking at the chart, in terms of the share of accountants, which started at 20 thousand workers in 2009 and reached a peak at 28 thousand workers in 2010. After that, it had a dramatically downward trend and finished about 21 thousand workers. Similarly, there was a steady growth in the figure for software engineers from 18000 workers in 2009 to 21000 workers in 2011 before declining sharply in 2012, at 17000 workers.
Turning to the data on migrating cooks, it saw a year-on-year fluctuation, beginning the period with 17000 workers in 2009 and dropping by 2000 workers in the following year. At the final period, the figure for skilled cooks dipped back to its starting point after experiencing a notable raise in 2011, at 18000 workers. The most notable profession is computer programmer. Despite having the lowest number of skilled migrants, this profession showed an upward trend. 2000 workers was registered in 2009 and doubled in 2010 before going down slightly one-year after and going up again, at 5000 workers.