The fundamental question you'll need to answer is why it's worth a future employer taking a punt on you? Do you have a degree in analytical subject? Some form

The fundamental question you'll need to answer is why it's worth a future employer taking a punt on you? Do you have a degree in analytical subject? Some form of engineering or hard science (I presume you don't have a CS degree). Do you have a portfolio of work that can demonstrate your ability? Have you contributed significantly to a reasonably large open source project? Better yet, are you a maintainer of such? If you can answer yes to some or all of these, it will demonstrate that you have a certain intellectual ability and staying power; that you have demonstrable competence in programming and that you understand and are familiar with SDLCs and working in a development team. It will still likely take some effort in applications, you are still a risk, but you should stand a reasonable chance of landing a job. If you can't answer yes to some of them then I'd argue struggle, as a recruiter, to see what's in it for me.