The bar chart delineates the number of employees in different jobs migrating to Australia from 2009 to 2012. Overall, the figures for accountants and computer programmers experienced an upward trend while the reverse pattern could be seen in cooks and software engineers. Moreover, accountants constituted the highest position while computer programmers held the lowest one.
Concerning the categories that increased, in the first year, the number of accountants was the highest at 20 thousand, which was ten times higher than that of computer programmers, accounting for the lowest data. Then, the former considerably increased and peaked at 28 in 2010 before dropping dramatically to 22 in 2011 and negligibly decreasing by 1 thousand in 2012. However, the latter doubled after a year and decreased to the initial number in 2011 before rising to its highest point of 5 in the final year.
Regarding the remaining jobs, there were 19 thousand software engineers migrating to Australia in the first year, composing the second-highest position, followed by cooks at 17 thousand. Then, the number of software engineers experienced a steady rise and reached a peak of 21 in 2011 before falling by 4 thousand in the final year. Similarly, the figure for cooks moderately dropped to 15 in 2010, then, it recovered and reached a peak of 18 in 2011 before witnessing a slight decrease to 16 in 2012.