The bar graph shows how many people with different skills migrated to Australia from 2009 to 2012. Units of measurement are in thousands.
Overall, while there was a general increase in the figures of accountants and computer programmers who came to Australia to work, with the number of accountants peaking in 2010, the reverse trend was true for the migrants in the sphere of cooking and software engineering. It is also worth noting that relatively fewer computer programmers headed to Australia seeking jobs across all four years.
With regard to the workers who came to Australia in large numbers- accountants, cooks and software engineers, they all followed an increasing pattern in their numbers throughout the year, albeit with mild fluctuations. In detail, the number of migrants working in accounting sector started at 20, a figure that then reached its chart-high level of about 28, followed by a sharp decrease nearly to its original level, at 22 in 2012. Meanwhile, despite having fewer numbers, the figures of those working as computer programmers in Australia saw an increase from about 2 in 2009 to 5 in 2012, fluctuating between 4 and 2 in the middle of the period.
When it comes to the overseas cooks and software engineers, a slight decline was seen in their numbers. Specifically, the figure of cooks underwent a slight decrease to about 16 from its initial 18, while it was from 18 to 16 in the case of software engineers, with both professions seeing fluctuations in their migrant workers throughout the period though.