The chart illustrates the quantity of employees migrating to Australia in order to work in 4 prominent occupations from 2009 to 2012.
Overall, all four careers witnessed fluctuations over the four years. Noticeably, there was a significant difference between the number of people traveling to Australia to be accountants and computer programmers, while the fields of cooks and software engineers experienced relatively stable numbers of migrant workers during this period.
The sector of accounting had the highest number of foreign workers, while the figure for computer programmers was the lowest. Specifically, the number of accountants started at 20 thousand in 2009, then dramatically increased by 8 thousand workers, finally finishing with a slight decrease to 21 thousand in 2012. In contrast, the number of computer programmers remained low, starting with 2 thousand people and rising appreciably to 5 thousand in 2012.
Both the cook and software engineer fields had relatively high numbers of immigrant workers. The quantity of cooks in Australia fluctuated, beginning with 17 thousand in 2009, then significantly declining by 2 thousand, and finishing with 18 thousand workers in 2012. Referring to the number of software engineers, which was the second highest, it started at around 19 thousand in 2009, reached 21 thousand in 2011, and decreased by 4
thousand in 2012.