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When you say "better" do you mean that you DL more than you squat? Because that's totally normal.
If you squat high bar you'll be more upright and it will be a more quad dominant squat, lowbar uses more lower back and glutes. When I used to squat low bar, I basically never trained deadlift and still managed to pull 200kg because the bottom position in the lowbar squat is so similar to a deadlift pull (for me at least).Generally speaking, high bar squat has greater athletic crossover.
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Thanks guys! You've all been really helpful.
That question was really useful input. After watching some youtube videos on the difference between high and low bar I think I've figured it out. DLs are my best lift, about 20 - 30% better than my squats, so most probably I am shifting forward to let the posterior do more of the work, lessening the strain on my quads. Stupidly I thought shifting forward meant more work for the quads, hence my confusion.
OK, so strict discipline it is then, cut my sets short if need be rather than shifting the weight backwards to my glutes. And I'll have a think about how to re-structure the build up to the final couple of sets.