Job markets throughout the Bay Area will cool off during 2017 amid a slowing economy and barriers to rapid growth, economists said Monday.

After a few years of head-spinning job growth in Santa Clara County and the San Francisco-San Mateo region, the economic boom in those areas is coming back down to earth, according to a series of new assessments and forecasts from Beacon Economics.

“In recent years, since job growth peaked around 2015, employment growth has been slowing and it will continue to slow,” Robert Kleinhenz, executive director of economic research with Beacon Economics, said Monday.

A sluggish job trend in the once-booming technology sector is contributing to the cooling outlook for the Bay Area market, the report said.

Part of the problem, experts said, is that construction of new homes has failed to keep up with the employment growth in the Bay Area.

“You can’t keep adding jobs and not add housing,” said Christopher Thornberg, founding partner with Beacon, which tracks regional economies, including those in the Bay Area. “The lack of housing slows down the ability to create new jobs.”

Experts believe that the Bay Area — especially the tech-focused regions of the South Bay and the San Francisco-San Mateo region — simply can’t maintain the growth rates of recent years.

During 2017, the total number of payroll jobs is expected to increase 2.3 percent in Santa Clara County, 2.3 percent in the East Bay and 1.9 percent in the San Francisco-San Mateo region. That is much slower than the job growth in 2016 of 2.9 percent in Santa Clara County, 3.1 percent in the East Bay and 3.2 percent in San Francisco-San Mateo.

Job growth during the years after the Great Recession appears to have peaked in 2015 for both the East Bay, which grew at 3.3 percent that year, and the San Francisco-San Mateo region, which grew at 4.5 percent.

Santa Clara County’s job growth appears to have reached its zenith in 2012, when that region’s employment grew at 4.6 percent.

“We probably have seen the peak for job growth in the Bay Area,” said Stephen Levy, director of the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy.

Yet at the same time, major tech companies continue to make plans for hiring and expansion in Silicon Valley and other parts of the Bay Area.

‘”Facebook, Google and Apple do not appear to have changed their long-term plans for job growth and expansion,” Levy said. “And you also have Amazon expanding with new offices and tapping into the technology talent in the Bay Area.”

The Beacon report comes on the heels of recent reports from the Bay Area Council that a growing number of Bay Area residents are anxious to flee the nine-county region and also harbor a sour outlook about the area’s economy.

Despite the prospects for a cooling economy, Santa Clara County will remain one of the leaders for job creation in California, according to Beacon forecasts.

“While the pace of regional job growth has slowed in the South Bay, the region remains ahead of the state,” Beacon said in its new report.

Similarly, the East Bay outlook, while becoming more sluggish, nevertheless points toward continued employment growth.

“The foundation is still very strong for job growth and the economy in the Bay Area,” Levy said.