Re: I'm guessing the money is not so good...
but piss poor salary for a skilled senior IT worker in London
So a big improvement would be simply to move the function somewhere where that salary goes a whole lot further, and undoubtedly would have vastly better quality of life than within the self-absorbed shithole that sits at the centre of the M25. And when picking somewhere to go, not some grimey former industrial provincial cess-pit either, nor the vast metrollops of the "London-for-flat-cappers" effort to build a Northern Powerhouse.
But that realisation is beyond the cretins of Whitehall and Westminster.