This paper develops the analytical results for canonical problems of poro-hyperelastic shear that serve as benchmarks for validating computational approaches. Fully developed benchmarking problems are rare and the shear strain deformation problem presented in the paper is an adjunct to analytical solutions presented previously. The analytical solutions are developed for the strain energy function corresponding to a neoHookean but compressible hyperelastic material. One effect of including the influences of incompressible fluids in the pore space is that even though the porous skeleton may be compressible, the short term behaviour is controlled by the incompressible phase of the poro-hyperelastic material. This influences the instantaneous response of the fluid-saturated medium. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first analytical result for the problem of shear deformation available in the literature that combines the effects of poroelasticity and hyperelasticity. The one-dimensional nature of the problem lends itself to a simplification of the poro-hyperelasticity problem to non-linear partial differential equations of the parabolic type that can be solved through conventional finite difference schemes or, more effectively, with the use of the MATLAB™ built-in function pdepe. The solutions developed in this study match very closely the results obtained from finite element techniques.