The Bay Area job market hit an unexpected speed bump in August, state labor officials reported Friday, but analysts believe the nine-county region remains poised to extend its yearslong pace of robust employment growth.

The region added 1,200 jobs in August, but that was just a fraction of the gains seen in the previous months. Over the one-year period that ended in July, the Bay Area employment market expanded at a rate of 9,200 new jobs per month, or 110,000 total.

“We could be cooling off a little bit, but this report isn’t enough to make us too nervous about the strength of the expansion in Santa Clara County and the Bay Area,” said Scott Anderson, chief economist with San Francisco-based Bank of the West.

Santa Clara County lost 500 jobs, while the East Bay gained a scant 200, according to seasonally adjusted figures released by the state Employment Development Department. The San Francisco-San Mateo metro center was the Bay Area’s primary bright spot, adding 1,400 jobs.

“These numbers don’t reflect the underlying strength of the Bay Area economy,” said Stephen Levy, director of the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy. “You look at all the economic activity around here — we will definitely see job gains resume this year in the Bay Area and Santa Clara County.”

And despite a federal report indicating a deceleration in the nationwide job market, experts say the Bay Area should be able to withstand that trend.

“I don’t think there is a big slowdown going on right now” in the Bay Area,” said Mark Vitner, a senior economist with San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank. “We are looking at other data from the government that suggests the trend in job growth is still very strong, both in Santa Clara County and the rest of the Bay Area.”

During August, employers in the United States added 151,000 jobs, far below the pace of 271,000 jobs added in June and 275,000 gained in July. Job gains nationally have averaged 182,000 a month so far in 2016. That’s 21 percent below 2015’s average gains of 229,000 a month.

The job losses in Santa Clara County contrast sharply with the previous employment trends in the South Bay.

“Santa Clara County has been growing at a very strong annual pace, so to see a complete drop-off like this is genuinely surprising,” said Jon Haveman, principal economist with San Rafael-based Marin Economic Consulting. “It’s entirely possible we will see a rebound in Santa Clara County over the next few months.”

Over the 12 months that ended in July, Santa Clara County gained more than 33,000 jobs and added 2,800 jobs a month. The county also had posted employment gains for 10 straight months before the August losses.

California added 63,100 jobs in August, and the statewide jobless rate was unchanged at 5.5 percent, according to the EDD.

“In August, California accounted for 42 percent of the 151,000 jobs created in the nation,” said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor with Cal State Channel Islands. “California’s economy is surging, while the rest of the country is not so hot.”

Experts warn that Santa Clara County and the San Francisco-San Mateo region could encounter some obstacles if the stock markets continue to struggle.

“It could be more difficult for initial public offerings to go to market, and that could discourage venture capital investments in new companies,” Anderson said.

Measured over a one-year period, Santa Clara County continues to outpace the Bay Area job market, according to this newspaper’s analysis of seasonally adjusted numbers supplied by the EDD.

Santa Clara County added 34,300 jobs over the 12 months that ended in August, a gain of 3.3 percent in total jobs during that period. By comparison, over the same 12 months, the Bay Area added 101,000 jobs, an increase of 2.7 percent from the totals the year before.

Similarly, the East Bay gained 27,100 jobs over the one-year period, which translated into annual job growth of 2.5 percent. The San Francisco-San Mateo region added 25,700 jobs, a 2.4 percent increase.