Because you aren't on serious money it shouldn't be to difficult to make the move. Entry level in an investment bank in London is in the region of 40k. That co

Because you aren't on serious money it shouldn't be to difficult to make the move. Entry level in an investment bank in London is in the region of 40k. That could be one option. If you move to Reading you could probably get around 30k+ as a junior dev. Many companies have support type engineers which might be easier for you to move into. This usually revolves around making bug fixes and updates to some bespoke software inside the company made. If none of these sound appealing, you could get into some big open source projects, start making commits and lo and behold you are valuable to many places as a pure developer.