Two occupations, side by side, on the figures SkillSelect actually publishes: pool size on both subclasses, position in the 189 pool, points profile and nomination split. It opens on Software Engineer against Accountant (General) — 9,603 submitted 189 EOIs against 7,377 as at August 2026 — and either side can be swapped for any of the occupations published in full. Every row opens in the EOI Insights dashboard, where the same comparison runs across all 26 published months.
Key terms.SkillSelect is the Australian government’s online system for skilled migration. An Expression of Interest (EOI) is the form you lodge in it, and it is not a visa application. An EOI counted as submitted was still sitting in the pool when the monthly snapshot was taken; one counted as invited was holding an invitation at that moment. ANZSCO is the occupation-code list SkillSelect uses. Every figure on this site counts EOIs rather than people, because one person can lodge more than one.
Not migration advice. Visa eligibility, nomination criteria, occupation lists and the points test all change, and only the Department of Home Affairs can tell you where you stand. The Cyclopedia explains how these subjects appear in the SkillSelect EOI statistics the government publishes, and links into the EOI Insights dashboard so you can check the figures for yourself.
Two occupations side by side
Pick two occupations and read them across. Every row is a published figure or a ratio of published figures, as at August 2026 — nothing here is estimated.
Two occupations side by side, as at August 2026.
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Software Engineer
Accountant (General)
Submitted EOIs on 189
9,603
7,377
Rank in the 189 pool
#3
#7
Share of the 189 pool
5.3%
4.1%
Change over twelve months
+17.2%
+8.8%
Median published score on 189
75
75
Share at 80 points or above
48.5%
42.7%
Submitted EOIs on 190
20,847
9,745
190 EOIs per 189 EOI
2.17
1.32
Most nominated jurisdiction on 190
New South Wales (24.5%)
Western Australia (24.1%)
Plot both pools as linessign inOccupation Trends takes several occupations at once, so the two columns above become two lines on one chart.
Submitted EOIs is the size of the pool on the snapshot date, not the number of people who applied during the month and not a queue. Rank is position by pool size among every occupation SkillSelect published that month, not just the ones with an article here.
Median published score is the middle of the distribution over the cells the Department publishes, so it describes the field rather than any invitation threshold. 190 EOIs per 189 EOI says how much more this occupation leans on state nomination: above 1 means the nominated pool is the larger of the two.
The rows describe pools, not prospects. Nothing on this page can tell you whether you will be invited, and none of it is migration advice.
This table is one month. The EOI Insights dashboard is the same comparison over time and in more dimensions: Occupation Trends puts both pools on one chart across every published month, Alternatives finds adjacent ANZSCO codes with smaller pools than either of them, and Queue by Points compares the two score distributions directly rather than through a single median.
In the dashboard
Occupation Trends plots the same two pools as lines, month by month, so a gap that looks fixed here can be seen opening or closing.
Example snapshot, not live counts. Use the buttons above for the current submitted pool.
Any two of the 85 whose submitted counts are published in full in every month we hold. Occupations below that threshold are suppressed at source, so there is nothing exact to compare them on.
Does a smaller pool mean a better chance?
No. Pool size is one input among several, and the tables carry no information about invitations for a specific occupation, about your own score, or about whether the code is on a current occupation list. A small pool at a high median score can be a harder field than a large one at a low median, which is why the dashboard plots size and score separately rather than combining them into one ranking.
Why are the 189 and 190 figures never added?
They are separate pools counted separately, and one person can hold an EOI in both. Adding them would count the same person twice and produce a number that describes nothing.
