19 IT Career Fields
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Every field below covers what the role actually involves day to day, the skills a fresher genuinely needs to start, how to break in with no experience, and typical starting pay in India — written for someone who hasn't worked in tech yet, not someone hiring for it.
Development
Data
Enterprise Systems
Infrastructure & Support
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Network Engineer
Design, build and keep running the networks everything else depends on.
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Desktop Support / System Administrator
Keep every employee's computer, software and access actually working.
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Cloud Engineer
Build and manage the infrastructure that runs on AWS, Azure or GCP instead of a physical server room.
DevOps Engineer
Automate how code gets from a developer's laptop to a live, running application.