Five top jobs granted Australian permanent residency visas in 2017-18

Professionals, technicians and managers emerged as top major occupation groups granted skilled visas in 2017-18. Find out which occupations were granted the majority of skilled visas in 2017-18.

Source: SBS

The highest numbers of permanent residency visas were granted to Accountants last year, followed by Software Engineer and Registered Nurses, new government figures have revealed.

The total permanent Migration Program outcome for 2017–18 was 162,417 places, compared to 183,608 permanent visas granted in 2016-17.

Professionals, technicians and managers emerged as top major occupation groups granted skilled visas in 2017-18 which accounted for 68.4 per cent of the total 2017–18 Migration Program outcome.

The top five occupations granted visas in the skilled stream in 2017-18 are:

• Accountants (3505)
• Software Engineer (3112)
• Registered Nurses (1561)
• Developer Programmer (1487)
• Cook (1257)

Source: SBS

Within the Skill stream, the Employer Sponsored category was granted 35,528 places. Under which, 29,307 visas issued under the Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS) and 6221 visas issued under the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS).

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