Josh,
This is typical when you have a conviction on your licence; you don't usually get cheap car insurance. What makes it more difficult in your case it that you're quite young as well. By the sound of it, you haven't done the
driving ban course which knocks off 25% of your ban length. Some insurers would have given you a discount for this.
What you'll need to do is get quotes from insurers which specialise in convicted drivers. The conventional insurers will quote you higher because you now fall outside the criteria for competitive quotes. Try going to
eConvicted Quote Direct and see what kind of quotes you get.
If that doesn't help, you might want to consider going for third party, fire & theft insurance cover instead of comprehensive as this would bring your quote further down.
Let me know how you get on with it anyway and if I can be of any further help.
