Characteristic skill rises with it (5)
I believe the answer is:
trait
'characteristic' is the definition.
(a trait is a quality or characteristic)
'skill rises with it' is the wordplay.
'skill' becomes 'art' (both can mean a talent).
'rises' is a reversal indicator.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'art' reversed gives 'tra'.
'tra'+'it'='TRAIT'
(Other definitions for trait that I've seen before include "Idiosyncrasy" , "Feature of personality" , "Distinguishing feature" , "Distinguishing characteristic of personality" , "A characteristic of straitened kind" .)